Daniel > Books: read-in-2017‎ (91)

It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

True terror isn't being scared; it's not having a choice in the matter.

Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked.

The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.

She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.

"The problem with happy endings," I said, "is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die."

You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved,
that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person,
and why.

A pro athlete really dies twice. At the end, like everyone else, but also at somewhere closer to the beginning, when s

A pro athlete really dies twice. At the end, like everyone else, but also at somewhere closer to the beginning, when she loses the only life she's ever known.

The tennis parent is the will of the player before the player has formed a will of her own.

Anyone can be anyone on Facebook. It's easy to hide behind a faceless page on the internet.

Anyone can be anyone on Facebook. It's easy to hide behind a faceless page on the internet.