I figured Alan wasn’t really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid, someone I actually felt close to. I kept hoping that this would be it, that...
How’s life?That’s the stupidest question I’ve ever heard.
Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.
The city is just too big and too full of people to be alone.
Are you ready to return to the outside world, Billy?-No, definitely not, sir.-Well, you can't stay here forever now, can you?-Why not? I'm not bothering anybody, sir.-Because it's not healthy. You're...
Хотите верьте, хотите нет, но в нашем городе есть одно место, откуда по ночам все еще видны звезды. Оно осталось одно на весь город — такое волшебное место, не затянутое облаками фабричного дыма, не з...
Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk--I am as good as dead alr...
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.
What Mr. Albee most desires is for the Model UN, the entire group of them, all eleven, even the scoundrel Quinn, to be there waiting, when he gets home each dreary night, and there again when he awake...
What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.
Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.
Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.
I’ve been thinking alot and it’s not that anyone did anything wrong. We just didn’t know what we wanted. We weren’t thepeople we were supposed to be yet,
And he says, I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with me. And I think I realized that I’maverage, that there’s nothing remarkable about me. And I wanted to know if this is something otherpeople thin...
Почему, когда мы становимся взрослыми, нас так пугают загадки и тайны? Не потому ли, что с возрастом наши миры превращаются в миры повседневной рутины, безопасности и порядка? Не потому ли, что мы утв...
Listen, I’m going to give you some advice, not because Ithink you need it, but because I feel like I’ve earned it. The right, I mean. To give advice. Here it is:don’t hold onto things. It’s a problem...
He wants to say: First ofall, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all kinds of things.Because all of it matters. Even if it is awful. Everybody knows all the bad movies...
You scan the cheering bleachers for the strange boy’s face: handsome, reserved, with the eye patch, a little dramatic, a little scary. You finally find him sitting there in the middle of the sixth row...
The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.
His face almost looked the way it did when he was a teenager, when there was the subtle expression of both confidence and mischief in his darkly handsome eyes. When I think of him now, though, I don’t...