She thought about her life and how lost sheโd felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths sheโd been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
Douglas CouplandYou pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas CouplandEverybody has a โgripping strangerโ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe itโs the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the libraryโa stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying โDrop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,โ youโd follow them.
Douglas Couplandwhat I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
Douglas Coupland