A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it.
Stephen M. IrwinTags: marriage joy husband wife haunted pessimistic adultery job distrust troubled jaded distancing-self life-change
Sometimes it's like I'm living my life waiting for more bad news.
Evan KuhlmanTags: life pessimistic
No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.
They Might Be GiantsTags: humor pessimistic they-might-be-giants tmbw
My father believed it was a cancerous lump, not because my mother was genetically prone to such a thing, but because he was looking out for the saboteur of his wonderful life.
Sarah WinmanTags: pessimistic
Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.
Kim HarrisonTags: prediction panic disaster pessimistic soon nice premonition
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.
Gillian FlynnTags: pessimism pessimistic real
Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.
Anthony LiccioneTags: endurance negative pessimistic climb
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: friendship reality curiosity wise pessimistic
I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.
Haruki MurakamiTags: pessimistic
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
Robert M. SapolskyTags: self depression pessimistic
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