Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.
Darin StraussI suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that.
Darin StraussI have come to love you in spite of---" Do I want to be loved in spite of?...Does anyone?
Darin StraussLove wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.
Darin Straussthis empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might be confused with an actual body.
Darin StraussWhat's impossible to communicate, what you can't experience unless you're part of it, is the sensation of being in a real-life marriage. Even little chats seem to be floating in some kind of really ast liquid, and that vast liquid is the ocean of shared feelings and memories and shorthands, of understanding and misunderstandings between the couple-- their history ocean. More and more of their business tends to go underwater, and so even the important words feel only like individual waves popping up from that ocean. All that context, that history, and those impressions from real life that the couple logs and drowns in, it all washes over everything
Darin StraussI've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.
Darin StraussThings don't go away. They become you.
Darin StraussSelf-hate is rarely unconditional.
Darin StraussThe cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
Darin StraussTags: friendship end failings
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