I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I’d like very much if I met her walking down the street.
Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.
I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.
Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.
We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.
But you can’t feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, or that you’ve forgotten. It just means you’re human.
I knew there was something peculiar about you,” she said. “And I mean that as the highest compliment.
If you must fail,” he said grandly, “fail spectacularly!
You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.
Fictions, whoppers and paradiddles.
That’s because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you.” “I’m not entirely sure about that,” Emma said. “Only kidding!” said Horace. “It’s to buy clothes, of course.
It’s not about destiny but i do think there’s balance in the world and forces we don’t understand intervene to tip the scales the right way.
I felt ashamed for having been jealous of his life, considering the price he’d paid for it, and I tried to feel lucky for the safe and unextraordinary one that I had done nothing to deserve.
That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.
It’s as if the more he cares about someone, the less he can see. Emotion clouds his vision.
Oh, thank heavens! Someone remembered the bath mat, Enoch deadpanned. We are saved.
If you must fail, fail spectacularly!
Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.