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The residents are used to living above and below and beside other people’s entire lives while pretending to be utterly unaware of them; hearing each other’s TVs and smelling each other’s cooking but never learning each other’s names.
People think the decisions you make that change the course of your life are the big ones. Marriage proposals. House moves. Job applications. But she knows it’s the little ones, the tiny moments, that really plot the course. Moments like this.
he told her the problem was that she didn’t want a nice guy, but the actual problem was that he wasn’t one.
The new normal, which is in absolutely no way normal at all.
It was as if some people thought the end was nigh while others hadn’t even seen the papers.
There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
None of us know what we’re capable of, if the circumstances were right. Or wrong.”
No one is born being X, Y, or Z. And theoretically, if you can learn how to be a certain way, you can unlearn it, too.
