Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.
Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person.
Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except that his pale skinny legs are vis...
Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Araband a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is sodomy’’.
She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand...
She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tort...
Sometimes I don't get you, I said.She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled at the television and said, You never get me. That's the whole point.
Soy como. Como. Soy como una granada, mamá. Soy una granada y en algún momento voy a estallar y me gustaría reducir al mínimo las víctimas, ¿de acuerdo?Mi padre ladeó un poco la cabeza hacia un lado,...
Straight and fast.
Thank you, I say, pounding his back probably too hard. That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life. He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. I did it to save myse...
The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop su...
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.
The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.
The future will erase everything—there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion.
The marks humans leave are too ofter scars.
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.
The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. That's God, I think, the rising sun and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. I don't believe we return to haunt or comfort...
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