- One of the two of us will be last.
- You can only flush so many times.
- There are some smells, like fates, you cannot escape.
- I can look away so long that I forget I am looking away.
- Some women have marimba laughter.
- Sometimes I just know, no matter what you said, that I was right.
- It isn’t always necessary or helpful to think about things I’ve done.
- You can be too sad to put the car key in the ignition of your car.
- It’s not the not knowing, it’s not even the wanting to ask, it’s the hating the needing to ask
- If you want to get attention, take off your shoes.
- The sight of rain-flattened prairie grasses compares to any Japanese rock garden.
- When they ask the errant shamefaced politician “What were you thinking of?!” I always want to say the answer for them, the one they’d answer if only they could remember how to talk: “I was in direct pursuit of fundamentally human desires.”
- Fear of what they must think is the worst reason not to do something.
- Popsicle stick sculptures lit on fire do not seem like art to me, but I’m open to meeting the person who might change this perspective
- Sometimes I awake, aloft. Other times I have to crawl up from the cellar.
- I heard someone tell this dream: “I am the only survivor, strapped into my seat on a plane that has crashed, a plane that carried every person who has ever meant anything to me.”
- I heard someone say, on a corner, I am a cheap Messiah. I turned to look but no one looked especially cheap unless you count the sex worker in the leopard print shoes (who looked absolutely awesome).
- I heard these two sentences on different days, from different people, and my mind keeps trying to hook them together, like an engine to a caboose, and make sense of them, or maybe even a whole universe: Maybe the neurologist was right, but I don’t know if I can wait for the autopsy to find out.
reliablyuncomfortable 
Great post! Number 14 resonates with me, not necessarily with Popsicle on fire.. but there are so many other things I am open for suggestion of the other-wise 🙂
I teach art and in my humble opinion, popsicle sticks are only good when used for popsicles or fire starters. My favorites on your great list are number 5 (how true) and number 12 (how incredibly true). 18 reminds me of Lewis Black ” If it hadn’t been for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent a year in college.”…
I love Lewis Black!
thanks you guys 🙂
Number 16 really hits home with me.. I’m going to write a Thanksgiving post and I was wondering if I may use the quote from 16 to emphasis the reason I’m personally grateful, and why we should all be appreciative on more than just Thanksgiving. I couldn’t figure out how to email you so I had to comment. 🙂
I’m glad it resonates, feel free to quote away. And you can email me at reliablyuncomfortable@gmail.com. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you! I’ll have to email you in a bit because my phone likes to comment when it decides it’s ready, not when I am.