I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
Curtis SittenfeldI feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.
Curtis SittenfeldThe big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.
Curtis Sittenfeld