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You listen to me ramble about graduate school all the time; maybe I haven’t been giving your dreams equal attention.
you love me—you told me that yourself when you called to say you were leaving—
You swore this wasn’t cold feet, but if you find yourself reaching for a pair of socks, I forgive you.
my predisposition to cynicism leads me to seek out the worst-case scenario until solid data points me in a sunnier direction.
for fear my mother would notice and begin to ask questions she didn’t actually want the answer to.
I suppose everyone is bound to be selfish from time to time, as some of the people closest to me seem intent on reminding me.
Feelings are not facts.
Did you know that an animal need only be rewarded for a behavior once before it continues to replicate that behavior again and again—even if a second reward never arrives?
I have a black belt in task execution,
the one person waiting for me was someone who would disappoint me only in ways I was prepared to deal with.
like I’m nostalgic for a carefree existence I’ve never actually known.
she’s too busy with the periodic table to set the dinner table.
intelligence is mostly a construct made of curiosity, opportunity, and plain old hard work,
“Not unhappy is not the same thing as being happy,
putting others’ needs first is often the byproduct of having loved ones.
As with the end of the world, I’m glad I won’t be there to witness it.
People are the cause of most pain.
if a little intrigue—albeit from a distance—distracts me from my own troubles, who am I to mind my own business?
other people’s have managed to find me.
one should not need a vacation from the person one intends to spend the rest of one’s natural life with.
I don’t have many people in my life—by design.”
“Plans?” I said. The word struck me as archaic, probably because I haven’t used it in such a long time.
when you have nothing going on in your own life, it’s entirely too easy to become wrapped up in the details of someone else’s.
To me, though, it seemed like another sign the person I believe myself to be is fading fast.
More often than not people’s lives are interconnected, even when they don’t realize it.”
‘What is coming is better than what has gone.’”
“Even if I’m wrong, I don’t want to go through life thinking the worst is yet to come.”
I do know exactly what I need—and that is several things I will never have.
“I have reservations about allowing a commercial entity to data mine my personal information for profit.”
for all my studying, there are some things you can only learn by living through them
He had so many stories to tell, but never an apology for unceremoniously exiting my life.
I’m sorry. How strange, the power of those two little words.
I remember being eleven. I still wanted my father to come home.
“There’s something about seeing that city that changes you.”
I’m not sure I want to be changed any more than I’ve already been forced to.
most people are their own blind spots.
no reason to rain on his parade when the world’s already sending in a storm.
Maybe optimism is the only thing standing between him and giving up on the daily slog of human existence.
