Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder