“I think we all build superstructures in our heads, catwalks and trestles that lead us from the acceptance of our own responsibility to the coll mechanics of the factory, where things are an interlocking mess, where everybody's pretty much unaccountable.… — 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
