People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives is always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You… Read More

The Italians spend a lot of time sitting at the outdoor cafes sipping espresso and reading. Not a bad habit Read More

In the car was a mom, a dad, a baby daughter, and a little six-year-old boy with the same ethereal blue eyes as Frances Cobain. The boy loved nothing in the world more than sledding with his… Read More

...yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth. He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stran… Read More

I went to the hospital to visit the father of a girl in one of my lectures and ate some cucumbers in his room. When he heard me crunching on them, he wanted some too, and he ate his with the… Read More

The whole world is turned upside down. I love it. It's like we're in a snow globe and God decided he wanted to see a blizzard. So he shook us all the fug up Read More

But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, could anybody stand to know that they all were? Read More

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird Read More

If tomorrow you come down with an illness that you knew with certainty would kill you, how many different things would you feel? Would relief be at all prominent among them? Read More

When you want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it Read More

Don’t tell me that I don’t want to live! I sure want to live. If I could live without this disease, then I would, wouldn’t I? If a suicide could escape certain horrors with… Read More

You can. And thank you for giving meaning to my life. I came into this world in order to go through everything I’ve gone through: attempted suicide, ruining my heart, meeting you, comi… Read More

I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like… Read More

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even the stopped clock is right twice a day Read More

But if my birth is God’s will, then you must always have meant to marry Papa Read More

He wanted all to lie in ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would only be half alive; and he said mine would be drunk; I said I shoul… Read More

It is so something really! Certainly it is! Why the hell isn’t it? People never think anything is anything really. I’m getting goddamn sick of it Read More

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give up anything to slow time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up Read More

It’s amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, and they act upo… Read More

I know everything! I was there. You claimed you were trying to help him. Were you trying to help him when you offered him the choice between wealth or wisdom? Were you trying to help him whe… Read More

. . . until the Destroyer of all earthly pleasure and the Sunderer of all Societies arrived and ended their days Read More

That’s just pain. It goes eventually. And when it’s gone, there’s no lasting memory. Not the worst of it, anyway. It fades. Our minds aren’t made to hold on to the pa… Read More

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of life imperceptible to the human eye. It… Read More

They had the feeling that if she stood too close to the fire she might melt; if she drank too much iced tea she might drown; and if she persisted with that look in her luna-moth eyes, with w… Read More

You think the sun will hang in the sky forever, but when it reaches a certain point in its descent, it goes so fast—flattens, seems to hover for one instant, and is gone. Then comes th… Read More