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It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was th...more

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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

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There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the res...more

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You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, an...more

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When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

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Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

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Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that. There's n...more

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That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

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There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became...more

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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disrupt...more

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my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

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That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.

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What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those ...more

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It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

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The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unha...more