You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.