Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.
If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
The only thing he cares about.
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means ’place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.
Instead of the word ‘love’ there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.
Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It’s the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.
Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
This is love, to sit with someone you’ve known forever in a place you’ve been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it’s time to go.
I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you’ll let me show you.
Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution – even if it’s right in front of your nose.
Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.
Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.
If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down.
Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?