“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“There is a long marriage between comedy and human suffering, and mental illness, in particular, is easily played for laughs….Sometimes it is hard to shake the feeling that, all jokes aside, there really is an epidemic of human suffering in the world, the full brunt of which is being borne, for now, by only a luckless few.”
—Teju Cole, Open City
“But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
“‘What makes us the most normal,’” said Reiko, “‘is knowing that we’re
not normal.’”
—Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“When you love someone, you have to take them as they are”
-Jeff Winger
As if we weren’t already insufferable hipsters, @joelmchale and I hipstomaticized: - @GillianJacobs
