how to win the lottery s2e2 – prep by curtis sittenfeld
“perhaps this sounds mercenary, but i feel grateful for these trial relationships, and i would like to think it all evens out—surely, unknowingly, i have served as practice for other people.”
“perhaps this sounds mercenary, but i feel grateful for these trial relationships, and i would like to think it all evens out—surely, unknowingly, i have served as practice for other people.”
“i wondered what terrible thing it was that i had done.”
“i was thinking maybe the reason you used to get like that was because at some level you always knew.”
i have to be responsible for the world, and none of them knows what that feels like. if i don’t organize things just right, you see, everything will be destroyed. you understand? i’m not saying i’m god, but i know what it feels like to carry the world.
the fact that sometimes I think that people today must be the saddest people ever, because we know we ruined everything,