Boards Quote by Darin Strauss

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding…

— Darin Strauss

I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt…

— Darin Strauss

“We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.”

— Darin Strauss

“What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?”

— Darin Strauss

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant…

— Darin Strauss

“this empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might…

— Darin Strauss

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

— Darin Strauss

“Relationships are physics. Time transforms things- it has to, because the change from me to we means clearing away the fortifications you'r put up…

— Darin Strauss

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal…

— Darin Strauss

“Things don't go away. They become you. There is no end, as T.S. Eliot somewhere says, but addition: the trailing consequence of further days…

— Darin Strauss

“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. Even little…

— Darin Strauss

“We’re all pretty much able to deal even with the worst that life can fire at us, if we simply admit that it is…

— Darin Strauss