Quotes from Tim Sandlin

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

The worst things in life are the best things gone bad - Tim Sandlin

What makes people between the ages of eleven and fifteen such mean jerks? I'd rather be ninety-five than thirteen again.

RC blinked a couple more times and admired the freckles on either side of [Honey's] nose. He would have enjoyed connecting them dot-to-dot with a felt-tip pen. In his fantasy, he would discover the meaning of life spread across her cheekbones.

Do you believe love is a chemical reaction between two people?" "At first it is. Then, theoretically, it grows into something more. Or dies.

Here's the deal: 90 percent of the time, whatever you do will turn out to be a mistake, but that's still better than doing nothing, which is always a mistake.

The weekend passed in two slots—bad dreams and awake. Awake was a bad dream come true, so I preferred the other kind.

Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.