“Sure, each night we staggered home, unfired, unglazed, already broken without knowing it. But at least we were trying.”

“Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.”

“We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.”

“I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family”

“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”

“Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.”