4 Quotes by Patrick Anderson Jr.

Lauren realizes right then that the prospect of being single—of recent events leading to a divorce and her being a single mother with child support checks and the like—scares her to death. Dating itself is such a frightening, vulnerable time period, no matter what the circumstances. It sucks, really. She doesn’t want to go through all that again.

For just a second, Lauren wonders if she’s going insane. But insane people don’t think they’re insane, everybody knows that. But...since that fact of insanity is common knowledge, doesn’t that mean an insane person could use it to convince themselves they’re not actually insane? Wouldn’t that make them even more insane?

You going back?' he asks.'Where?''College,' he says. 'You plan on going back?'And before she can think of a proper answer, she blurts out the first thing that comes to mind:'Why would I?''To finish your degree,' he says.'Yeah, I get it,' she says. 'But—why?''To get a better job?''I’m okay with this one,' she says.'Yeah,' he says, shifting in his seat again. 'But—I don’t know. Can’t you make more money?''Linus,' she says, leveling her eyes at him. 'I was an English major.

I just”—Sean looks away, shakes his head—“I don’t know what I’m doing now. It’s like a day-to-day thing. Sometimes I wake up happy and the day goes by and I’m fine. But then, most of the time it’s like—things are so much different now than they used to be...People stop giving a shit about what you do with your life after college.”“I’m pretty sure nobody gave a shit about it while you were in college,” Leon says.