Intimacy Idiot, by Isaac Oliver

“Good news is bad news in a tie.” – pg. 59

“But that’s what I wanted, to be on the other side of love – to have had it, as though heartbreak was chicken pox and you were then immune.” – pg. 74

“I had forgotten how when you’re twenty-one you think you know everything. ‘Get older.’ I wanted to tell him. ‘You start to know less.'” – pg. 144

“The world can be horrible. You cannot make sense of it; you can only absorb it. […] But if you try like [trees] do, your exhale can be cleaner than your inhale.” – pg. 268