“Nabokov changed my life," Max said. "I was going to be a writer, and then I read Lolita and I decided to go to law school instead. It looked easier.”
“From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law school after all, and, instead, you spend a good, big chunk of your adult life telling people how you decided not to go to law school after all. Somehow you end up writing again.”
“I was going to change my clothes, but I changed my mind instead.”
“I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.”
“I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.”
“But I want to feel like life matters. Ihad something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”