"CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" Quotes

The future is a kind of attenuating peninsula; eventually it will become the present.

I was on the verge of tears, but I was not a crybaby. I would never let anyone make me cry.

It's those moments, those odd moments that you look back on and say, 'There it was. That was it.'

I had always been good at avoiding the truth.

I had always been a gloomy sort of kid.

My brain was occupied with this thought: I am too smart for this.

My life was complicated, but what life wasn't?

For all my education, accomplishments, and so-called wisdom, I can't fathom my own heart.

I yearned to be one of them, to be ordinary and overlooked.

I felt a wave of nausea. I was afraid of being afraid.