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1 " I had a slight feeling of babysitting as we walked soberly along together using all our old phrases, making all our old jokes, not quite feeling all our old fondness. "
― Ben Dolnick , At the Bottom of Everything
2 " Neither of us had lived in a house since we were kids; apartments, it turns out, are very different things, psychologically. Houses—especially old and creaky houses—are individuals, somehow; their fronts are faces, their closets are pants pockets. "
― Ben Dolnick
3 " We're like the hands of a clock...chasing and escaping each other, losing and finding each other, around and around, again and again, joined way down at the root, no matter how far apart. "
― Ben Dolnick , The Ghost Notebooks
4 " Driving yourself insane on the Internet is as easy as checking the weather. "
5 " even his incontinence — "
― Ben Dolnick , Shelf-Love
6 " This is a thing that I’m sure is obvious to everyone else but is never-endingly astonishing to me: that every change, every life, consists of nothing but a series of days. "
7 " This is how it happens: you can’t imagine a person being out of your life until you can’t imagine how she ever could have been in your life in the first place. "
8 " (This is similar, perhaps, to the tone in which I say, "Oh, they serve small plates, right?" when someone suggests eating at a tapas restaurant.) Beginning "
9 " But morning always comes, no matter what sort of night you’ve had; this is an underappreciated fact. "
10 " A person’s quality is inversely proportional to the quantity of explanation he demands before agreeing to help a friend in need. "
11 " Hannah’s Oberlin friends, a gaggle of food-co-op-looking people, came up and hugged me one by one. "
12 " Your own life is terrifying, but life is an unending astonishment. "
13 " Okay,” Dr. Mital said. “Okay.” Dr. Mital was a young Indian woman with dramatic eye makeup and an engagement ring. “Do you know what your thoughts were, when he pushed you?” “I was thinking What the fuck you do that for, I’m gonna cut you.” “Okay. So”—reaching over to write illegibly on her whiteboard—“What the blank did you do that for, I want to cut you. Is that accurate?” “Yeah that’s it.” “And your feelings were anger, I think we can say. Would you say there was some fear in there? "
14 " In every system of sufficient complexity there are periods of inexplicable, and usually meaningless, disruption. "
15 " There's almost nothing more discouraging than the sunset on a day when you've hardly gone outside. "
16 " A mind made up is a formidable "
