“Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped… — Brock Clarke 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 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
“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
“I confess this is an unforeseen -- unforeseen and, indeed, I did not foresee it -- by-product of journaling: in writing down… — Brock Clarke 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“...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 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 Time 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
“It was a complicated look. I remember thinking that, and I also remember thinking that you had to have known someone for… — Brock Clarke Long time Copy Share Image
“I guess you don't know what kind of guy you are until you start acting like one.” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets.” — Brock Clarke Become Yourself 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
“That was his phrase - "the high ramparts of my defensiveness"- and I remembered it in case I ever decide to build… — Brock Clarke 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
“This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when… — Brock Clarke Being Copy Share Image
“Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently… — Brock Clarke Hope Copy Share Image
