Guterak looked over. Hey, you got your hair cut. Yeah. Remy put the cap back on. What made you do that? I shot myself in the head last night. Well. Paul drove quietly for a moment, staring straight ah...
Even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?
And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exciting part, the action? It's all so fast.
After she disappeared inside the hotel, Pasquale entertained the unwieldy thought that he’d somehow summoned her, that after years of living in this place, after months of grief and loneliness and wai...
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea. That’s only three. Alvis finished his wine. You have to do disappointment twice.
And now there are two distinct phases to sex with Daryl: the first two minutes like an exam from an autistic gynecologist, the next ten a visit from the Roto-Rooter man.
Has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brain...
As if ye have faith and it shall be given to you.
Weren’t movies his generation’s faith anyway- its true religion? Wasn’t the theatre our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, sa...
Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.
Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbel...
Rather, he found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
Pasquale’s eyes felt heavy and he thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.
Pasquale considered his friend’s face. It had such an open quality, was such a clearly American face, like Dee’s face, like Michael Deane’s face. He believed he could spot an American anywhere by that...
Make them want to give you the thing you're taking.
I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at th...
Go with it. Be confident and the world responds to your confidence, rewards your faith.
And if a moment exists only in one’s perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow. Maybe every moment occurs at once, and they will always be...
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.
All we have is the story we tell.