“I guess you don't know what kind of guy you are until you start acting like one.” — Brock Clarke Acting Copy Share Image
“Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets.” — Brock Clarke Apparently 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
“And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved… — Brock Clarke Failure Copy Share Image
“And I thought that maybe this was what it means to get old: to have someone much younger remind you of how… — Brock Clarke Thought Maybe Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. — Brock Clarke Feels Copy Share Image
“Because this is one of the things I learned from Exley: anything can be a beginning as long as you call it… — Brock Clarke Birth 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 Ramparts 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
“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
“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
“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
“... I also empathized, because she'd tried to do these things out of love, and because she had bumbled the attempt, and… — Brock Clarke Empathize 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
“When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing:… — Brock Clarke Boys Copy Share Image
“Some of the men were dressed like Peter and wore red plaid hunting jackets or bulky tan Carhartt jackets or lined flannel… — Brock Clarke Funny Copy Share Image
“Good-bye,' I said to them, but they didn't seem to hear me, and why would they have wanted to? Why would they… — Brock Clarke Aphorisms 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
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. — Brock Clarke Allusion Copy Share Image
