"As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about."

learning from our mistakes doesn't necessarily mean we won't repeat them. it just means we learn why they were mistakes - why we shouldn't have done them; not why we shouldn't do them again.  after all, a mistake today won't necessarily be one tomorrow.

when you can't fix things, the only thing to do is outgrow the brokenness ( Read more... )

it fascinates me that i've been so deep into this career/quarterlife/existential crisis thing that it's the only thing i've written about ( Read more... )

some things were just never meant to be ( Read more... )

he sat up in his bed excitedly as he shut off the alarm. he shut it off quickly because he didn't want to wake her, even though this day was potentially the biggest one of his 23 odd years in existence. i need to face today on my own, he thought ( Read more... )

the hard throbbing, the cold sweats, the light sleeping - they might be back, but for now, they're gone.

now we can breathe.

the powerlines always fascinated her ( Read more... )

i ended 2008 on an absolute low ( Read more... )

you just have to accept that people outgrow each other ( Read more... )