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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/everybody-wants-life-to-speak-to-them-with-special-kindness-every/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

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## More by Darin Strauss

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/a-tragedy-s-first-act-is-crowded-with-supporting-players-witnesses/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/i-d-violated-the-primary-rule-of-junior-and-senior-high-don-t-get/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [“We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/we-can-try-our-human-best-at-the-crucial-moment-and-it-might-not-be/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [“What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/what-can-one-do-with-levels-of-gloom-and-guilt-fear-and-disbelief-of/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/everybody-wants-life-to-speak-to-them-with-special-kindness-every/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/this-empty-act-could-no-more-be-mistaken-for-a-mother-s-touch-than/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/love-wasn-t-a-thing-you-fell-in-but-rose-to-it-was-what-stopped-you/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/relationships-are-physics-time-transforms-things-it-has-to-because/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/i-think-each-family-has-a-funhouse-logic-all-its-own-and-in-that/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/things-don-t-go-away-they-become-you-there-is-no-end-as-t-s-eliot/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/what-s-impossible-to-communicate-what-you-can-t-experience-unless-you/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/we-re-all-pretty-much-able-to-deal-even-with-the-worst-that-life-can/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/the-cracks-in-old-friendships-are-measured-in-awkward-pauses/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/i-ve-come-to-see-our-central-nervous-system-as-a-kind-of-vintage/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darin-strauss/she-s-both-striking-and-practical-somehow-like-the-string-of-rope/)

[Darin Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darin-strauss/)

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