An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.