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I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow by Jonathan Goldstein
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“I turn on my computer to search Craigslist for apartment listings. The wireless window pops up, and I realize with some regret that all I know about my neighbours is their wireless network names: Krypton, Space balls, Couscous, and Scarlet. From this I can tell little else than that they're fans of Superman, Mel Brooks, Middle Eastern cuisine, and the colour red. I look out my window, wondering whose house is whose and what private food and entertainment consumption occurs in each and how I will never get to know.”
Jonathan Goldstein, I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow
“How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.”
Jonathan Goldstein, I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow
“In sleep things are simpler. No regret over the past. No worry for the future. Only the present. And as bad as a dream gets, at least you get to sleep through it.”
Jonathan Goldstein, I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow
“But I am enjoying the feeling of inbetweenness — that not-yet-being-settled feeling — and I plan on dragging it out as long as I can, because its a state of grace where all things are permissible.”
Jonathan Goldstein, I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow
“How do you get over a first love?” he asks.
“You never do,” Howard says. “It just stays with you and becomes a part of who you are.”
Jonathan Goldstein, I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow
“Even so tiny a loss has the power to still feel like a loss.”
Jonathan Goldstein, I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow
“And of course there was the loss of women, some of whom he still woke up aching for. He'd study their remnants alone at night - slips of paper bearing old phone numbers. Photographs. A mitten. In bed he would stare at the ceiling, trying to seize on the exact feeling of a particular woman's head on his chest. It's weight, the smell of her hair.”
Jonathan Goldstein, I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow