There is no try, I said, There is only do.
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are a...
There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis.This was not one of those times.
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architect...
The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
The pathetic thing I wanted to say to him on the phone – but didn’t – was this: When you're a little kid, you have something. Maybe it's a blanket or a stuffed animal or whatever. For me, it was this...
The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.
The minister said, Let us pray, but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, We gotta fake pray, and bowed his...
The last time I was this scared, I peed myself.The last time I was this scared, Radar says, I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. S...
The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.
Stupid human voices always ruining everything.
Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them, I said.Isaac shot me a look. Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the...
So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from ther...
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted...
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. - Alaska
Sempre que he pensat en la mort d'aquell home, […] l'he imaginat com vas dir tu, que se li van trencar totes les cordes de dins. Però hi ha mil maneres de mirar-s'ho: potser es trenquen les cordes, o...
Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake hate.
Me enamoré de la forma en que te quedas dormido: poco a poco, y luego de una sola vez.
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.