And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with t...
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as...
Algunos infinitos son más grandes que otros infinitos, nos enseñó un escritor. Hay días, mucho de ellos, cuando resiento el tamaño de mi juego ilimitado. Quiero más numeros de los que puedo tener, y D...
After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the w...
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.
A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to...
Why is being a nerd so bad? saying " I noticed you're a nerd is like saying hey, I noticed you'd rather be intelligent that stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that...
É muito difícil ir embora - até você ir embora de fato. E então ir embora se torna simplesmente a coisa mais fácil do mundo.
Eveything that comes together, falls apart, the Old Man said. Everything. the chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you'r...
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books. I tramp a perpetual journey All goes onward and outward.... a...
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more tha...
You know how people are always saying your parents are always right? Follow your parents' advice; they know what's good for you. And you know how no one ever listens to this advice, because even if it...
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn'...
You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you cou...
You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.
You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly, which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.