If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.

That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.