"Palo Alto" Quotes
"Palo Alto" is a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the turbulent lives of suburban teenagers grappling with identity, rebellion, and the search for meaning.
short stories | 208 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the onramp. She says, "People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles."
My life is so scattered now. I'm going to have to glue it back together. But glue won't stick to everything. You can't glue the abstract, can you?
We're just a bunch of fuck-ups, aren't we?
I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as everyone imagines we could be.
Sometimes you just have to do things, even if you don't know why you're doing them.
We're all just lost souls, trying to find our way back home.
Love is a funny thing. It's easy to fall into, but hard to stay in.
We're all searching for something, but sometimes we don't even know what it is.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to be honest with yourself.
We're all broken in some way, but that doesn't mean we can't be whole.
