You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brill...
You can fight with me, I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard.
You are fairly smart, I said after a while.You are fairly good at compliments, he answered.
With all the planning she’d done, she must have known she was leaving, and even she couldn’t have been totally immune to the feeling. She’d had good days here. And on the last day, the bad days become...
When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home? It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, bu...
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back..
When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been aske...
When Ben unfurls the T-shirts, there are two small problems. First, it turns out that a large T-shirt in a Georgia gas station is not the same size as a large T-shirt at, say, Old Navy. The gas statio...
Well, Ben went on,someone should just tell her to come on home, because she can find the world's largest balls right here in Orlando, Florida. They're located in a special display case known as 'my sc...
We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek.
We sat out there in silence for a minute and then Gus said, I wish we had that swing set sometimes.The one from my backyard?Yeah. My nostalgia is so extreme that I am capable of missing a swing my bu...
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as the side effect, which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on ear...
This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.
There will come a time, I said, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did an...
There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future....
There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.
The whole passage was underlined in bleeding, water-soaked black ink. But there was another ink, this one a crisp blue, post-flood, and an arrow led from How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to...
The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral.Kaitlyn, I said.Sorry...
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said.'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us...
The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it wrote in cursive Ceci n’est pas une pipe. (This is not a pipe.)I just don’t get...