“The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way into this marshy, pleasant terrain. You struggle against that push, and start to feel your stomach protest. It's… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
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… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
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… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.” — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?” — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“this empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling. — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“Relationships are physics. Time transforms things- it has to, because the change from me to we means clearing away the fortifications you'r put up… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
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… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“Things don't go away. They become you. There is no end, as T.S. Eliot somewhere says, but addition: the trailing consequence of further days… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“What's impossible to communicate, what you can't experience unless you're part of it, is the sensation of being in a real-life marriage. Even little… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“We’re all pretty much able to deal even with the worst that life can fire at us, if we simply admit that it is… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
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… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“She’s both striking and practical, somehow, like the string of rope lights around the banister that dangles and loops and steers you upstairs to… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
