Quotes from Caitlin Macy

Distress, however much you tried to compartmentalize it, put you in an illogical frame of mind.

It seemed comeuppance would slam down like the steel grille of a discount electronics store

When you were having what would become your happiest memories in the future, you didn't know you were having them.

All you could hope for with your second half century: that things wouldn't piss you off. You rarely got that.

Well, she respected that. That, she understood. She would have done as many squat-thrusts as it took. They threw you in together at these colleges because you were smart, got good grades, took BC calc, got a 5 on the AP Chem exam. No one warned you. No one told you what the expectations of your views were going to be.

Children pick up on themes—love, anger; more basically, warmth, cold. Tell yourself it's the details that scar children for life and you avoid the inconvenient truth that it is in fact the ongoing themes. Control. Disappointment. Entitlement. Narcissism. Deprivation. Frustration. Sorrow.