Writer. alterna-chick. introspective GenXer. feminist. dilettante. vegan. indie film and music fan. avid reader. Prefer cultural activities to sporting events. Indoors to outdoors. City to suburbs.

 

I’ve blown off entire careers because of one day I didn’t want to get out of bed.

Louis C.K.

My life was better before I knew you. That is, for me, the sad conclusion of this sad year.

Edith Wharton

I never see the sun. And I’m always hungry.

Jessica, True Blood

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

By the way kids, the 90s were awesome. We all had money and getting through the airport was a breeze.

The Exes.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

June Masters Bacher

It’s possible that you picked a guy with ego issues, and he’s playing mind games with you or anyone else who comes along). Really insecure people have big, sensitive, overblown egos, and one of the ways they puff themselves up to feel important and powerful is to make other people feel bad.

Violet Blue

Then, just a few years ago, I realized that everyone feels secretly fraudulent. It’s the feeling of being an adult.

Miranda July

Then, just a few years ago, I realized that everyone feels secretly fraudulent. It’s the feeling of being an adult.

Miranda July

He seems to have had no experiences that might temper him as a soul. He lives in his head, and I am unsure of the depth of anything he feels.

Generation A by Douglas Coupland