Long Island Compromise

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

At the bottom of your lies, when you cannot swim down farther because there is no farther to swim down, the brain finds optimism.

Why is it that only the implausible ever felt true to him?

It was how they don’t tell you how long the tail is on self-destruction—how you could self-destruct over and over and for so, so long without even coming close to the end, which, of course, is destruction itself. He marveled at this, how many chances there were to turn back when you saw the signs, which was exactly how many times you chose not to.