“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.” — Joan Didion
“You wake up one day and all the constructions are gone, the books and movies you stole from to romanticize your life make no sense and you realize that you are, in fact, living a totally fucked up, amoral life and are, essentially, everything you hate. When you lose your sense of constructed meaning you panic. You pick up new habits. This is the panic that makes people have babies, throw themselves into grueling 40 hour a week jobs, become alcoholics or religious nuts. Anything to fill the void, to construct something that means anything.” — Al Burian
“Who are you and what do you want?” — Void
