balancing on one foot

Fun quotes from my current read, Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones, by Lana Witt:

"Silence takes your clothes off, stands you naked in front of a mirror, and points out your flaws."

"...the next best thing to avoiding human contact altogether is to speak, sleep, and carouse with everyone all the time. ...There's not much difference between the two ways of living, it's when you try to get intimate with one person that you get into trouble."