"Iâve made sure I was the funniest in the room, the wittiest in the conversation, convincing myself that it would make you change your mind. It should be noted that these are precisely the kind of facts that humiliate me. It didnât work. None of it worked. Isnât that funny?"
"Itâs that other person â that needy, grabby salesman of a person â that you donât love, right? Is that the thing you hate about me? That neediness? That itchiness? The way I look at you, the way I change my plans for you? How I become one of those women who work at a department store and follow you from rack to rack. âDo you need anything?â âCan I help you with anything?â âIs there anything in particular today that youâre looking for?â If I cared less, would you care more? At first I was going to ask âwould you care at all,â but thatâs not right, is it? You care about me, you do. You value me. Probably. I mean, if someone asked you if you value me, you would say yes. You just donât actively value me. It seems like that wouldnât make a difference, but it makes a huge difference."
“I have told you so much, but there are pieces I have learned to keep hidden from you over these years. Perhaps, these are the parts I will eventually learn to compartmentalize and keep hidden from myself, as well. Itâs no question in my mind: When a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, it does not make a sound, it did not fall.”
"You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you ⌠Once you learn that, youâll never be the same again."
Steve Jobs
