The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.
Kissing someone so that you can get a free trip is perilously close to full-on hooking, and I have to confess that while I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
Everything is a side-effect of dying.
My current option was a Waffle House full of cheerleaders and a guy dressed in Reynolds wrap.
Why did breathing have to be such a work.
I’m like. Like. I’m like a grenade, Mom. I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant role that salt has played in human history.
It’s getting sucked into a whirlpool that shrinks and shrinks and shrinks your world until you’re just spinning without moving, stuck inside a prison cell that is exactly the size of you, until eventually you realize that you’re not actually in the prison cell. You are the prison cell.
Oh, my God! Get out of the car or I’ll call nine-one-one. Dude, what is your problem?
The people were starting to file into the plane now. I didn’t want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.
I just want to remember her. One last time, I want to remember her while still hoping to see her again.
Kita suka pada orang yang tak bisa balas menyukai kita karena cinta tak berbalas itu bisa bertahan dalam satu cara yang tak bisa dilakukan oleh cinta yang dulu pernah-berbalas.
The smell of perfume left behind. There’s not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage.
The question is rhetorical, but if I wasn’t trying to shut up, I’d answer it: You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
War didn’t scare me. I just didn’t want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that – I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y’all ain’t got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is.
My phone buzzed moments later.
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. And-God, I hope you won’t take this personally-but I love my best friend more than anyone in the world.
No puedo creer que no quisieras que te encontrara.
Like, I’m lazy, but I’m also good at not-doing things I’m not supposed to do... Being funny is a way of not-doing. Sit around and make jokes and be Mr. Funny pants and just make fun of everyone else’s attempts to do something.
In die Augen kann man jedem sehen. Aber jemand zu finden, der dieselbe Welt sieht, ist ziemlich selten.