I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took free throws. I liked that he was a tenured prof...
I lean in this time, and she doesn't turn away. It's cold, and our lips are dry, noses a little wet, foreheads sweaty beneath wool hats. I can't touch her face, even though I want to, because I'm wear...
I laughed and pointed out that Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You was a pretty good name for a band.Or a song, the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holdi...
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.
I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not, Takumi said.
I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.
I had no doubt that Tiny he got depressed, but that was probably because he had nothing to compare it to. Still, what could I say? that I didn't just depressed - instead, it was like the depression...
I go to seek a Great Perhaps. a
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.
I don't think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit whether you're a good person.
I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.
I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.
I don't know what superpower William James enjoyed, but I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name.
I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain....
I couldn't make myself happy, but I could make people around me miserable.
I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. '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 are...
I began to swim, an armless silver mermaid, using only my hips to generate motion, until finally my ass scraped against the lake's mucky bottom. I turned then and used my hips and waist to roll three...
I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven...
I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass—our roo...
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.