God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will. -The Colonel
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to e...
Getting pissed wouldn't fix it. Damn it.
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.
Esa es la cosa sobre el dolor —dijo Augustus, y luego me miró—. Demanda ser sentido.
Each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen—these people leave us, or don't love us, or don't get us, or we don't get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the...
Dude, if Kentucky is going to remind you of Paris, we're in a hell of a pickle.
Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans.But you are an American.Incurably so, it seems.
Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).
Comment dis-tu 'Oh my God, I don't know nearly enough French to pass French II'
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. Did you like it? His dad asked.Yup, Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turni...
Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a...
Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
But why Alaska?' I asked her.'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alask...
But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you...
But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our...
But monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Appollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relations...
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
Best day of my life hasn't happened yet. But I know it. I see it every day. The best day of my life is the day I buy my mom a huge fucking house. And not just like out in the woods, but in the middle...