A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS… — Darin Strauss Crowded 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… — Darin Strauss Embarrassment Copy Share Image
“We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.” — Darin Strauss Time 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 Bewilderment 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… — Darin Strauss Be you 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… — Darin Strauss Fashion Copy Share Image
Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling. — Darin Strauss Fall 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… — Darin Strauss Change 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… — Darin Strauss Behavior 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… — Darin Strauss Effort and time 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.… — Darin Strauss Communication 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… — Darin Strauss Effort and time Copy Share Image
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. — Darin Strauss Awkward Copy Share Image
I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The… — Darin Strauss Boards Copy Share Image
“She’s both striking and practical, somehow, like the string of rope lights around the banister that dangles and loops and steers you… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable… — Darin Strauss Dreams Copy Share Image
“The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way… — Darin Strauss Brain function Copy Share Image
Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of. — Darin Strauss Capable Copy Share Image
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. — Darin Strauss Bonfire Copy Share Image
“I have come to love you in spite of---" Do I want to be loved in spite of?...Does anyone?” — Darin Strauss Love Copy Share Image
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't… — Darin Strauss Assumption Copy Share Image
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read.… — Darin Strauss American history Copy Share Image
“I think we all build superstructures in our heads, catwalks and trestles that lead us from the acceptance of our own responsibility… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
