so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching." "not catching enough

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.

Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.