“How many of us have a love so true it spans eternity? A purity of need so clear it can remain strong… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“My arm draped her shoulder; we both felt safe, as if we were a complete solar system unto ourselves, dangling in the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“He said, "A ring is a halo for your finger. From now on, we no longer cast two shadows, we cast one.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I imagine I sow cuttings of Anna-Louise's hair, like the fine stems of dried flowers, and watch sunflowers grow from the cuttings.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
