“We can’t pick up where we left off; because that was a place I never want to be again.”
“Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.”
“Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.”
“I used to bookmark relationships, hoping to pick up where I left off when I returned.”
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”b”
“How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.”