We're All Damaged Quotes

“We’re all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us. Damaged, damaged, damaged.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“That’s the thing I hate most about my brain, the way it stores and catalogs things, all this dumb shit on a giant hard drive in my head, so I’m forced to obsess over it all like a crazy person.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Parenting is mostly bribery . . . and yelling.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Remember that string of movies when we were younger, like mid ’90s? The ones where the nerdy girl finally puts on makeup and a Wonderbra and everyone realizes how totally boneable she is?” “Yeah.” “Well, that’s you,” she says. “We’re in one of those movies. You’re my hopeless teenage girl, all stuck in your shell, and I’m here to give you a fresh coat of makeup and a slutty dress. Push those boobies up, Andy Carter, it’s go time.” “Do”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Maybe that’s just what moving on is, not getting over, but skipping over. And”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“They didn’t hate her when you were in high school. They made fun of her. She was the butt of jokes. But they didn’t hate her. That’s what people do now. They don’t disagree, they hate.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“The lesson here . . . Sometimes people throw things away. That doesn’t mean those things aren’t really, really good. Most of the time, it just means that person didn’t know what they had.” I’m”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Right when you find yourself not thinking about her at all, there she’ll be, right at the end of the story to fuck with your head one last time.” She”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Sometimes in life, it doesn’t matter that you’ve just woken up on a floor. Or that you haven’t brushed your teeth. Or that your hair is a mess and you’re wearing the clothes you slept in. Sometimes you just have to be polite.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Daughters,” he says. “You raise them and watch them grow up, and you love them so much it makes you crazy. Then one day some guy shows up. Maybe he’s nice. Maybe he’s got a good job. Maybe he’s got his shirt tucked in and he calls you sir. But he’s never quite what you’re hoping for. If you have one someday—a daughter, I mean—you’ll know what I’m talking about.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Marriage isn’t easy, Andy,” he says. “You love someone in a specific time and place. But you have no idea what they’ll become. People change. Sometimes, they change so much you hardly even recognize them anymore.” For”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Like pretty much every cat I’ve ever met, Jeter swings back and forth between loving me and trying to murder me, so I never know exactly what I’m getting.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“In my experience, Fox News isn’t something you can tune out, like a game show or a cable movie you’ve seen a dozen times. The colors, the moving logos, the giant fonts, the . . . well . . . the things they actually say. It’s like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead. So this is how it’d go. I’d hear something ridiculous, and I’d scoff or make some smart-ass comment, and then it’d be straight downhill from there.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“I realize how utterly amazing it is that we’re all able as humans to go about our daily lives without constantly obsessing over the fact that each of us will almost certainly be in a sterile bed someday, medicated and slowly dying. This officially marks the most depressing thing that has ever crossed my mind.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“All the stuff she says on the radio. It’s just fear. The world is leaving people like her behind, and it scares the shit out of her.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“The delicate place. This pretty pink flower. The center of me. Secret spot. My thornless rose. The forbidden canal.   There must be fifty others. It’s Daisy’s wall of awful vagina euphemisms.   My forbidden garden. Her velvet slipper.   Yeesh.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Do you ever stop talking?” I say. “Seriously, it’s like you have a superarticulate form of Tourette syndrome.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Are all our parents, collectively, fucked up? Have they always been fucked up, and it just takes us until our own adulthood to figure that out? “I”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Back in the car, I sit for a long time, breathing. I’ll remember this, what just happened, for a very long time. I’ll be on my own deathbed someday, replaying this in my head, wishing it had gone differently. We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And this is the shittiest thing ever. “Are”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“I’m comfortable with who I am,” I say, which is a funny thing to say while shaming my own body in a full-length mirror. “Shut”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“In my experience, Fox News isn’t something you can tune out, like a game show or a cable movie you’ve seen a dozen times. The colors, the moving logos, the giant fonts, the . . . well . . . the things they actually say. It’s like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“That’s the thing about the word vagina: it really carries in a quiet place.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Mixed in with all of its silly bullshit, Facebook is the literal manifestation of all our regrets, looping and looping, for free, on our computers and phones. People who should be gone and safely out of our lives forever are there again, one cryptic little glimpse at a time, reminding us of all the things we should or shouldn’t have done.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“I’m not an alcoholic—I don’t have the discipline to become one—”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Maybe this is how Catholics do it. We accept a certain level of unhappiness—like we have an unhappiness equilibrium built into our brains—and then, one day, we drop dead.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“Never trust someone who isn’t miserable at least half of the time. That’s my motto.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“He’s asleep when I go in, of course. The machines are making their noises, doing their thing. I sit on the uncomfortable chair at the side of his bed and watch him sleep for a while. The “I ❤ NY” mug is by the window next to all the flowers and cards, and I think of him telling Google that he’s alone, and I feel terrible again. “I’m sorry, Grandpa,” I say. I watch to see if his face changes, but it doesn’t. “I’m sorry I left. And I’m sorry I didn’t call you more. And I should have gotten you more than a coffee mug. And I hope now that the goddamn Cubs don’t suck so horribly and they actually win something someday. You’ve been a really great grandpa, and you deserve better than this.” I reach for his hand and hold it awhile. I wish he’d wake up again—if just for a few seconds so he’d know that I’m here. He doesn’t, though.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“He’s asleep when I go in, of course. The machines are making their noises, doing their thing. I sit on the uncomfortable chair at the side of his bed and watch him sleep for a while. The “I ❤ NY” mug is by the window next to all the flowers and cards, and I think of him telling Google that he’s alone, and I feel terrible again. “I’m sorry, Grandpa,” I say. I watch to see if his face changes, but it doesn’t. “I’m sorry I left. And I’m sorry I didn’t call you more. And I should have gotten you more than a coffee mug. And I hope now that the goddamn Cubs don’t suck so horribly and they actually win something someday. You’ve been a really great grandpa, and you deserve better than this.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“We're all damaged. Every single beautiful, stupid, precious one of us.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged