She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.