—PEOPLE SAY YOU’RE THE LUCKIEST MAN. YOU’RE NOT GOING TO WIN, BUT YOU’RE THE LUCKIEST MAN

  

…Your connection is unstable.

 

…It’s beautiful, or it’s luck, but either way it’s yours.

 

--“Ever think how all the good shit’s gone?”

--“That’s why you have to make sure to keep the good shit around.”

—The Bear 

 

…Some people respond well to tough love and, well, some people don’t.

 

…Life catches up to you at some point.

 

…“You don’t leave a room imagining defeat. You think you’re going to make it every time.” Nyad

 

…I’m so superstitious that I don’t even believe I am.

 

…Eyes on the prize, and all that.

 

…All I want to know is are you with me?

 

…Call me a boring dope, but I could spend the whole night watching “Forensic Files” and I’d be a happy clam (are clams really happy?)

 

…There are a lot of times when it’s better to be wrong than right.

 

…Sometimes when you need them most, those little poems are there to save your life.

 

…If you love it, but no one else cares, just do it anyway.

 

…Getting people to open up can be a little tricky.

 

…Why am I always the last to know these things?

 

…Phone conversations should be something you just have and not have to think too much about what you’re saying, otherwise something is awry.

 

…I spent hours cleaning up my office yesterday. Who let’s their workspace become a junkyard? Yeah, me. 

There were stacks and stacks of notes and story-starts on folded-in-half sheets of paper. I couldn’t remember writing 75 percent of it, and at least half was absolute gibberish.

 

…I’ve come to learn that it’s important to feel uncomfortable sometimes.

 

…“Everything has a voice. You just have to listen.” All The Light We Cannot See 

 

…I was laughing so hard on the phone the other night that I had no option other than to hang up. First time that’s ever happened.

 

 …I’m just working in my little corner of the ring.

 

…I’m not in a hurry and I hope you aren’t either.

 

…Why are you smiling?

 

…The question I had to ask myself was: How long can you live like this?

 

…Imagination is a little like practical magic. It can save you from gloom and doom.

 

…“The lesser of two evils is still evil.” Lessons in Chemistry

 

…As weird as it seems, I totally get the idea of where you’re going with it.

 

…What you don’t hold close, you lose, and it’s no one’s fault but your own.

 

…“Would have” “Could have”—half the story of life.

 

…Don’t know what to say, don’t know what to do.

 

…Sometimes it’s hard to know what the rules are anymore.

 

…No one ever really wins a fight.

 

…Being told to “Fuck off” is usually a bad sign.

 

…“It’ll be a while,” sure, but what’s a while mean to you? 

 

…All these years and I just learned that garrote is pronounced ga-rot and not ga-wrote.

 

…“persona” is the Greek word for mask.

 

…I may or may not have been…

 

…“I always think of poetry as living.” Padraig O Tuama

 

…On the phone, my dad would always close by saying, “It’s okay, you’ll come see me when I’m dead.” I saw him plenty before that, but he was correct to a degree. I always wondered, though, if he knew the highways went two ways.

 

…If you listen closely enough—which I’m doing right now—the walls will tell you story after story.

 

…“I love being afraid with you.” Beauty and the Beast

 

…I’m sorry I didn’t wait a few lines longer.

 

…I know the last part now.

 

…You’ll tell me when to panic, right?