Emotionally Insightful Gifts

"Would it kill you to ask me how I'm doing once and a while?"

Kiosk in large lobby with sign above it labeled 'Empathy'.

"Sometimes I like to come here by myself and contemplate ... or just scream about you."

"What I’ve learned is you have to look deep inside your heart and ask yourself, ‘What is it that she really wants to hear?’"

"...and those are my deepest, most intimate feelings about our friendship."

"I can’t believe you’re doing this! I have abandonment issues! Abandonment issues!!!"

"Ten years of therapy, and finally I’ve managed to replace my rage addiction with sarcasm."

Spirit of love

"Which one is the emoji for immense relief, coupled with general underlying disappointment, tinged with cynicism, anger and apprehension?"

'Are you crying?'

"Have you a cabernet that will pair well with dysfunction?"

'It's very sad really - all he seems to want is closure.'

'It always makes me melancholy when the robins start migrating south.'

The Beginning of the end

Sad Face Medals.

"Well, after we talked last summer, you never called me. I figured you lost interest."

'Mom, can you get dad a glass of water? We've just finished 'the giving tree' and he's a bit shaken up.'

For 43 years, Hank had successfully stuffed every feeling he'd ever had, until,of course, the morning when Fred asked if he could borrow a paper clip.

'Your work is so bleak, so despairing, your angst so wrenching. I've never read a party invitation quite like it before.'

Love to Joyce Mott from Lance and Gary,

Once a year in the spring, Randy 'The Rock' Taylor, the cafe's stoic love stud, experiences deep emotion. He does't want the world to know or acknowledge it's depth.

"I'm not in the mood, Edward."

"Even if you left me I probably wouldn’t notice."

Good cop, sad cop.

"Oh, and your feelings have been trying to get in touch with you."

Wine glass face.

'All I see is red ink.'

"Let's have a heart-to-heart talk—one huge, powerful grownup to one tiny, nothing kid."

"What is it, Roger? You seem detached."

Boy who has had his pea-shooter 'spiked'

Table for one. Menu. Which section? Lonely, or suicidal?

"You know I always cry at these things!"

SunSet

'Hey, don't blame me, just doing what the sign says...'

"It's not about you George, it's ME, and the fact that I think you're a useless, pathetic waste of skin."