Heather, the Totality Quotes

“Her Mother and Father were especially blind to feelings. Her Father denied he even had feelings and her Mother assumed everyone shared hers. Heather didn’t know for years that her ability to see people’s feelings and even feel them sometimes was unusual and when she discovered that the cruelty and rudeness that adults and friends inflicted on each other was unintentional or at least uninformed, she decided to withdraw, overwhelmed by the pain of typical human behavior.”
― Matthew Weiner, Heather, the Totality

“why should she care about them? didn't both of her parents deserve to be ignored for being exhaustingly needy of her time and affection? hadn't they earned it? other parents acted similarly but Heather's were the most suffocating”
― Matthew Weiner, Heather, the Totality

“despite all the machinery of civilization devoted to splitting up and moving on, Mark couldn't imagine the strength needed to actually do such a thing.”
― Matthew Weiner, Heather, the Totality