Marla Singer

"I am my own worst nightmare."

"You're not what the magazines tell you to be."

"Everything I touch turns to dust."

"You're not your accomplishments."

"The only way out is through."

"You're not the person you want to be, yet."

"We're searching for something we lost long ago."

"You're not your secrets."

"Everything beautiful gets destroyed."

"You're not your pain."

"The system breaks everything worth having."

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis."

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise."

"The things you own end up owning you."

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

"You're a slave to the history of your family."

"I don't want to die without any scars."

"Our generation has had no great war, no great depression, only a quiet desperation."

"Self-improvement isn't the answer. Self-destruction might be."

"You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you."

"The liberating factor is that everyone's impotent."

"You're not special. You're not a beautiful or unique snowflake."

"Do you know what a duvet is? It's a comforter."

"May I never be complete. May I never be content."

"You are not your mistakes. You are not your shame."

"It's entirely possible that I am a by-product of bad diet."

"I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content."

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate."

"The police commissioner hasn't even arrived yet."

"You're not going to want to hear this."