My Heart Is an Idiot Quotes

“I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [...]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.”
― Davy Rothbart, My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays

“There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.”
― Davy Rothbart, My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays

“It's appealing to imagine that if we can just get that one thing in our life to work out-- [...] that everything will be solved, absolved, good to go for good. I slipped into that way of thinking way too often, I admitted to Missy, even though I knew that sometimes in life all of a sudden there you were--standing with your Technics turntables just across the Canadian border, and you're not a new you, you're just you, but in Canada.”
― Davy Rothbart, My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays

“Marry her right away. Tomorrow, if you want. You don’t know how much time you get with someone, so you might as well start right away.”
― Davy Rothbart, My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays

“I started playing that game I play when I'm feeling lonely, the one where I review all of my prior relationships, marveling that so many sweet, smart, pretty girls have come into my life and that I've found a way to fuck things up with every one of them.”
― Davy Rothbart, My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays