Darin Strauss famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
-- Darin Strauss

#Regret #Crazy #Want
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
-- Darin Strauss

#Awkward #Cracks #Old Friendship
Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.
-- Darin Strauss

#Fall #Rose
Diminish the influence of fate
-- Darin Strauss

#Fate #Influence
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.
-- Darin Strauss

#Light #Skins #Watches
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.
-- Darin Strauss

#Player #Guy #Tragedy
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.
-- Darin Strauss

#Kindness #Self #Special
I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.
-- Darin Strauss

#Senior #Mom #Kissing
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.
-- Darin Strauss

#Crazy #Thinking #Normal
Things don't go away. They become you.
-- Darin Strauss

#Going Away
I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.
-- Darin Strauss

#Running #Dark #Emotional
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough.
-- Darin Strauss

#Book #Cities #Little Sister

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