No doubt, this is the kind of stress the constantly mutating AIDS virus must feel.
Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just to buy the things they really don’t need.
You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled.
La gente casada siempre cree que el amor es la respuesta a todo.
Adulthood Begins the moment someone tells you, “You need to be more sensitive.
I try to smile against all the swelling, and I say, look at me. How about next month?
Algunos actos son demasiado bajos hasta para tener nombre. Demasiado bajos para hablar de ellos.
Other reviewers hated it. Oh, they called it “too dark.” “Too violent.” “Too strident and shrill and dogmatic.” They would’ve loved “Barn-Raising Club.
A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
Estamos todos atrapados. Es 1734 para siempre.
An airplane is just so many rows of people sitting and all going in the same direction a long ways off the ground. Going to New York’s a lot the way I imagine going to Heaven would be.
La belleza es poder, igual que el dinero es poder y que un arma cargada es poder.
Liberamos guerras. Luchamos por la paz. Combatimos el hambre. Nos encanta luchar. Luchamos y luchamos y luchamos, con armas, palabras o dinero. Y el planeta nunca es una pizca mejor de lo que era antes de nosotros.
I know, I know, in that totally archetypal Tom Sawyer scenario it’s supposed to be way satisfying to attend your own funeral and witness how everyone secretly loved and adored you, but the sad truth is that most people are just as fakey-fake to you after you’re dead as when you’re alive.
Up those stairs, to anybody after the fiftieth dude, Cassie Wright will look like a missile crater greased with Vaseline. Flesh and blood, but like something’s exploded inside her.
Since school, he’d come to expect so little from life. Nothing special, just to be treated with courtesy and politeness by the world. Wanted people to see him and not fear him, not admire him but just to see him. He wanted to be recognized so people would think twice before badgering or insulting him.
Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn’t an act of personal empowerment. It’s you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what’s best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she’s in distress.
Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does.
At home, I’m too scared to look in the fridge. Picture dozens of little plastic sandwich bags labeled with cities like Las Vegas and Chicago and Milwaukee where Tyler had to make good his threats to protect chapters of fight club. Inside each bag would be a pair of messy tidbits, frozen solid.
Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.” And.