I still believe in the Great Perhaps.
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed:.
Hazel has developed an issue with the ghettoization of scrambled eggs,” Mom said.
Why do you need an adoring public when you’ve got me?” he asked.
But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.
You gave me a forever within the numbered days.
I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants.
The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.
I know it’s impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you’re older, you start to see them – the bad kids and the good kids and all kids – as people. They’re just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized.
When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.
Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.
He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness.
Und so fielen wir ineinander wie das entzweite Haus, das allein nicht stehen konnte, glorreiche, verdammte Liebende, die wir waren.
All roads led to her. She was the nexus of all connections his brain made – the wheel’s hub.
No fugging way. That’s how horror movies start. We drop you off, walk into some stranger’s house, and five minutes later some psycho’s lobbing off my nuts with a machete while his schizophrenic wife makes Colin do push-ups on a bed of hot coals. You’re coming with us.
It rather goes without saying that Katherine drank her coffee black. Katherines do, generally. They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
Without pain we wouldn’t know joy.
We did not say: Don’t drive. You’re drunk.
Yes, it’s difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam.