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"I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations."
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"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."
"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"
"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."
"I made so many promises when I arrived here.Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and nervous giggles that sit in my chest, build in my chest, threaten to burst through my chest, and the pressure is tightening and tightening and tighteningLife around here isn't what I expected it to be."
"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."
"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves."
"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.- The Evil Eye."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
"I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known."
"If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might."
"Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone."
"Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head."
"Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night."
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