Here’s something that might not occur to you: If a state trooper sees a weird, patchwork Toyota Echo hurtling down 1-95, and it looks like half of a small country is immigrating to the States in this one little car, you might get stopped.
Oz thinks I’m beautiful,” she whispered to the stars.
So this is how “happy” feels, I thought. The energy, the automatic smile. This is what it’s like to look forward to the day, to believe there could be good things coming.
Because now, the magic is everywhere.
The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.
I had made a friend. My second one in fourteen years. I was on a roll.
Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn’t it?
At that instant, I knew exactly what I wanted out of life: this. This feeling, this happiness, this embrace.
He felt nervous and excited an happy and kind of filled with dread, all at the same time. It was the most emotion he’d never experienced...
The only thing that beats One is two, and three, and four.
If you’re going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend!
You have to respect your enemy. Never, ever underestimate them. The second you do, they’ll squash you. Be smart about them. Respect their abilities, even if they don’t respect yours.
We all make choices. We all have to live with them.
Every journey begins with one step.
Life is a test. It’s all a test. Sometimes you have to get through it, and then later everything makes more sense.
Murder can be made to look like suicide, and suicide can be made to look like Murder.
Good memories are like charms. Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.
She’s about as sweet as a flaming turd.
But remember that you have to move on, somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.
What is a lie? It’s a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it’s a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don’t even really try to disguise it.