You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.