The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

- Darin Strauss

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

- Darin Strauss

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

- Darin Strauss

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS gu…

- Darin Strauss

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasa…

- Darin Strauss

By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted wa…

- Darin Strauss

I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the pl…

- Darin Strauss

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

- Darin Strauss

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

- Darin Strauss