Narrator (Anxious People) Quotes

“It’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”

“We don’t want our children to pursue their own dreams or walk in our footsteps. We want to walk in their footsteps while they pursue our dream.”

“We lie to those we love.”

“The older man thinks the most important thing is for a police officer to do the right thing. the younger thinks it’s more important to do things correctly.”

″...it’s like saying, ‘Don’t think about cookies,’ and now you’re thinking about cookies.”

“That was a parent’s job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they’re little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure.”

“Too much time has passed for the father to ask his son how he’s doing, too much time for the son to be able to explain. The distance between them is too great now.”