“I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is always lying.”
“I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!”
“I have to keep reminding myself -- this is not me. It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am.”
“I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.”
“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”
“Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”