I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.
Douglas CouplandOur achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.
Douglas CouplandI ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
Douglas Coupland