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which included a fat astronomer explaining that my star sign predicted my case. He got my star sign wrong.
Occam’s Razor – the theory that the simplest answer is usually the correct one.
“Wait and Hope”.’
People so often just want you to hold up a mirror for their own opinions.
But then, normal people don’t try to annihilate their entire families so I really should learn to judge less and listen more.
Men who turn their lights full beam on you for a few seconds and leave you chasing that artificial warmth for the rest of your life. It wrecks you and doesn’t leave a mark on them. But I learnt that early. Wilde never did. Perhaps then, he could have learnt something from me. Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead.
modern life is 75 per cent cancelling plans and both parties feeling relieved
Life is so short, and we spend so much of it talking to terrible people about the minutiae of their nothing lives.
I’ve never thought about how deliberately small I’d made my life, always filled with anger directed at people who never thought of me at all.