Iain Reid

I’m thinking of ending things.

Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It dominates. There’s not much I can do about it. Trust me. It doesn’t go away. It’s there whether I like it or not. It’s there when I eat. When I go to bed. It’s there when I sleep. It’s there when I wake up. It’s always there. Always.

You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.

Maybe the end was written right from the beginning.

HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN something is menacing? What cues us that something is not innocent?

I think a lot of what we learn about others isn’t what they tell us. It’s what we observe.

Questions are good. They’re better than answers.

I appreciate not knowing. Not knowing is human. That’s how it should be, like space.

‘Experience trumps age,’ he said. ‘We have to find ways to experience because that’s how we learn, that’s how we know.’

Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.

The most attractive thing in the world is the combination of confidence and self-consciousness. Blended together in the proper amounts.