“something is always falling apart in me.”

“That, to me, is the quintessential experience of living in the United States: constantly worrying whether or not the country is about to fall apart.”

“I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

“Things fall apart, it's scientific.”

“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”

“Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it’s all gone, the whole world falls apart.”

“I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

“For most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”