“You can wait only so long for a blackened window to be illuminated.” — Brock Clarke Light Copy Share Image
“Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.” — Brock Clarke Fear Copy Share Image
“Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.” — Brock Clarke Desperate Copy Share Image
“I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...” — Brock Clarke Endures Copy Share Image
“If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.” — Brock Clarke Book Copy Share Image
“I guess you don't know what kind of guy you are until you start acting like one.” — Brock Clarke Acting Copy Share Image
“Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets.” — Brock Clarke Apparently Copy Share Image
“There is always someone smarter than you; you’d think we die from the constant pain of our mental inferiority, except that most… — Brock Clarke Inferiority Copy Share Image
“Because this is one of the things I learned on my own: you need to say things simply, especially when they're complicated.” — Brock Clarke Complicated Copy Share Image
“There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.” — Brock Clarke Quiet Copy Share Image
“This was yet another good thing about drinking, of course: not that drinking made you forget things, but that it made it… — Brock Clarke Drinking Copy Share Image
“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the… — Brock Clarke Child Copy Share Image
“Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped… — Brock Clarke Lies Copy Share Image
“When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This… — Brock Clarke Bones Copy Share Image
“But maybe this is what happens when you hate someone for so long: the person you hate dies, but the hate stays… — Brock Clarke Business Copy Share Image
“... he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what… — Brock Clarke Greatness Copy Share Image
“I had what, I wanted, it was with me, in the room, including the room itself. Was it possible that we hear… — Brock Clarke Losing things Copy Share Image
“All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having… — Brock Clarke Book Copy Share Image
“If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why… — Brock Clarke Books Copy Share Image
“I confess this is an unforeseen -- unforeseen and, indeed, I did not foresee it -- by-product of journaling: in writing down… — Brock Clarke Confess Copy Share Image
“Some of the books I'd read had told me that love is fleeting; some of the other books I'd read had told… — Brock Clarke Books Copy Share Image
“The past comes back once and then it keeps coming back and coming back, not just one part of the past but… — Brock Clarke Crowd Copy Share Image
“When he did that, I didn't hate him anymore, I really didn't, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful… — Brock Clarke Hating Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing:… — Brock Clarke Boys Copy Share Image
“Some of the men were dressed like Peter and wore red plaid hunting jackets or bulky tan Carhartt jackets or lined flannel… — Brock Clarke Funny Copy Share Image
“For years, my mother must have hated Deirdre; for years she must have wished her dead. And now that Deirdre was dead,… — Brock Clarke Parenting Copy Share Image
“Good-bye,' I said to them, but they didn't seem to hear me, and why would they have wanted to? Why would they… — Brock Clarke Aphorisms Copy Share Image
“About me as a drinker: I wasn't much of one and had a short, bad history of doing it. The few times… — Brock Clarke Christmas party Copy Share Image
“Why wasn't it more difficult? ... Shouldn't some things be difficult?” — Brock Clarke Adversity Copy Share Image
“Detail exists not only to make us remember the things we don’t want to, but to remind us that there are some… — Brock Clarke Remember Copy Share Image
“There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail — the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions – and so I… — Brock Clarke Hate mail Copy Share Image
“And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved… — Brock Clarke Failure Copy Share Image
“They [my eyes] immediately started to tear up, tears being your eyes' way of forbidding you to look away,of forcing you to… — Brock Clarke Tear Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that's not.” — Brock Clarke Someplace Copy Share Image
“I almost touch her on the arm as she touched me on the arm, to console her. But I fear that my… — Brock Clarke Touched Arm Copy Share Image
“That was his phrase - "the high ramparts of my defensiveness"- and I remembered it in case I ever decide to build… — Brock Clarke Ramparts Copy Share Image
“You could have saved her," he said, and I realized that he had started crying, crying being that thing you do when… — Brock Clarke Crying Copy Share Image
“Because this is one of the things I learned from Exley: anything can be a beginning as long as you call it… — Brock Clarke Beginning Copy Share Image
“And I thought that maybe this was what it means to get old: to have someone much younger remind you of how… — Brock Clarke Thought Maybe Copy Share Image
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