“Why wasn't it more difficult? ... Shouldn't some things be difficult?” — Brock Clarke Adversity Copy Share Image
“Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets.” — Brock Clarke 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 guess you don't know what kind of guy you are until you start acting like one.” — Brock Clarke Acting Copy Share Image
“Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.” — Brock Clarke Desperate Copy Share Image
“I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“You can wait only so long for a blackened window to be illuminated.” — Brock Clarke Light 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
“...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
“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
“A tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. So tricky that we would never do it, if we did not… — Brock Clarke 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
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. — Brock Clarke Allusion 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 Beginning 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
“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
“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
“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
“... I also empathized, because she'd tried to do these things out of love, and because she had bumbled the attempt, and… — Brock Clarke 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 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
“...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
“It was a complicated look. I remember thinking that, and I also remember thinking that you had to have known someone for… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.” — Brock Clarke Fear 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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. — Brock Clarke 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
“You could have saved her," he said, and I realized that he had started crying, crying being that thing you do when… — Brock Clarke 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
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