“Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.” — Brock Clarke Desperate 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
“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
“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
“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 could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your… — Brock Clarke Funeral Copy Share Image
“Why wasn't it more difficult? ... Shouldn't some things be difficult?” — Brock Clarke Adversity 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
“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
“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 Time 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
“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
“You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we… — Brock Clarke Technology 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 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
“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
“... 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
“Can a story be good only if it produces an effect? If the effect is a bad one, but intended, has the… — Brock Clarke Story Good 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
“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
“I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was "A Fictional Memoir." I had no idea what this… — Brock Clarke Books 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“In truth I was very pleased with myself and with my story and all that had happened in it. Because you can't… — Brock Clarke Truth Copy Share Image
“I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those… — Brock Clarke Bad thing 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 Too late Copy Share Image
“At the time, I thought this was just one of those vague things adults say to remind you that you're a kid… — Brock Clarke Time Copy Share Image
“They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not… — Brock Clarke Love Copy Share Image
“It was a complicated look. I remember thinking that, and I also remember thinking that you had to have known someone for… — Brock Clarke Complicated Copy Share Image
“...Maybe this was another reason why people read: not so that they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would… — Brock Clarke Books Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it… — Brock Clarke Actual life Copy Share Image
“A tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. So tricky that we would never do it, if we did not… — Brock Clarke Believing Copy Share Image
“But then again, I was pretty certain I'd make more mistakes, so I didn't dwell on the one I'd just made too… — Brock Clarke Failure Copy Share Image
“...and then he looks at me in that way of his, that way that suggests you aren't exactly a human being, but… — Brock Clarke Mysterious Copy Share Image
“Because this is another thing your average American man in crisis does: he tries to go home, forgetting, momentarily, that he is… — Brock Clarke First place Copy Share Image
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