You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I’d never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.
Long week. Long month. Long life.
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
He missed that, too, and it hadn’t even happened.
You’re not boring. You’ve got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.
We’re invisible. I’ve never been here with someone else. It’s different being invisible with someone.
We’re going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it’s a grizzly bear?
It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn’t say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
He’d fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.
Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich.
I hated being careful, too – or wanted to, at least.
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
I wasn’t disappointed. My expectations had been met.
I have guts, just not when it counts.
I wouldn’t have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard – I’d have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.
Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re going to do. I’m just going to do it.
I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.