Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn’t occasionally go too far, you weren’t going anywhere.
Love is a skill you learn.
A moment is all you can expect from perfection.
Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.
As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that’s no guarantee you’ll create anything worth all your effort. You’re always haunt by the idea you’re wasting your life.
Everybody looks a little crazy if you’re looking close enough and if you can’t look that close, then you don’t really love them.
They’re just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she’s still able to recover.
I’m living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.
Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.
The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White’s game. There’s an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I’d always hoped for something better than that.
It’s exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
The bad news is we don’t have any control. The good news is we can’t make any mistakes.
Art never comes from happiness.
If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.