So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.