There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.

“Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reaso…”

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd eve…”

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoi…”

“It was like a trapeze act: How could you really tell at what second the acrobat…”