“It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.”
“End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.”
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
“You are putting yourself in serious danger...'I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.”
“Memory was a story you told yourself about yourself, extrapolated from a tiny dot-matrix of facts.”