In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

People aren't always what you want them to be

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

Pastoralia by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. Its one of the weirdest books Ive ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.