Quotes
Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events — a story — and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.
Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
Being alive is just a brief technicality. (p. 167)
Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives? How hard can it be to change gears and say, "You know what? Instead of inventing and telling stories, I’m going to make my life a more interesting story." (p. 177)
It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God's judgment in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride.
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day.
There was that law of life so cruel and so just which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
"I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered—and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life."
p. 594
We live and die and anything else is just delusion.
Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life."
