Caroline Knapp citations

“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.”

“To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.”

“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”

“Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.”

“I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.”

“I'm 38 and I'm single and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.”