Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It’s one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they’re the four hugest words in the world when they’re put together. You can do it.
You should approach each book – you should approach life – with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.
Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives.
She wanted to find a way to love them in death, because she forgot how to love them in life.
Who cares if a man wants to marry another man? All i want to know is who’s going to ick up all the dirty socks?
I wasn’t just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo.
I was emotionally erect.
So I guess you were hopelessly romantic and easily distracted, a B-plus mother, certainly good enough to get into Matriarchal State University but not quite good enough for St. Mary’s College of the Blessed Womb Warriors.
Sharing dark skin doesn’t necessarily make two men brothers.
But I’m also addicted to books. And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book.
It was July. Crazy hot and dry. It hadn’t rained in, like, sixty days. Drought hot. Scorpion hot. Vultures flying circles in the sky hot.
One play can determine the course of a game. One play can change your momentum forever.
He sang ‘Stairway to Heaven’ in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
Hunger is my crime.
As for romance, Frank had dated a few women over the years but found them to be too inconsistent and illogical, so he dated a few men and found them to be even more random and frightening.
Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children’s hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?
Here’s the score. Once a thing tastes blood, it will come for more.
If human beings possessed endless possibilities, then cities contained exponential hopes.