“The more we tell ourselves that we should always be happy, that happiness in an end in itself, the worse it gets.”— Iain Reid, amazon.comTagged: Happiness
“I feel like I’m underwater, weighed down, helpless.”— Iain Reid, amazon.comTagged: anxiety in literature, Horror, How Anxiety Feels, Anxiety, Sinking Feeling
“I’m thinking of ending things.”— Iain Reid, amazon.comTagged: First Line of Books, Ending Things, Leaving You
“I think what I want is for someone to know me. Really know me. Know me better than anyone else and maybe even me. Isn’t that why we commit to another? It’s not for sex. If it were for sex, we wouldn’t marry one person. We’d just keep finding new partners. We commit for many reasons, I know, but the…”— Iain Reid, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Why We Date, Why We Commit, Love, Getting To Know Someone
“Most people want to get married. Is there anything else that people do in such huge numbers, with such a terrible success rate?”— Iain Reid, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Failed Relationships
“Forfeiting solitude, independence, is a much greater sacrifice than most of us realize.”— Iain Reid, amazon.comTagged: Solitude, Being Alone
“Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness. Sadness and happiness need each other.”— Iain Reid, amazon.comTagged: Part and Parcel, Yin And Yang, Sadness, Happiness
“It’s not you, it’s me. It’s my issue. I’m the one with the problem. I’m putting you in an unfair position. You’re a good person. I need to work through some things. You need to move on. We tried, we did. And you never know what’ll happen in the future.”— Iain Reid, amazon.comTagged: Breaking Up, Things to Say To Someone When You Are Breaking Up With Them, It's Not You (It's Me)