Had no idea that Mr. Meany was capable of such precise craftsmanship. I’d also had no idea that Mr. Meany was familiar with Latin—Owen, naturally, had been quite a good Latin student. There was a ting...
Good books were the best protection from evil that Pepe had actually held in his hands—you could not hold faith in Jesus in your hands, not in quite the same way you could hold good books.
A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.
Your friend is most original,' Dan Needham said, with the greatest respect. 'Don't you see, Johnny? If he could, he would cut off his hands for you - that's how it makes him feel, to have touched that...
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.
Whoa! cried the Crucified Christ—he looked more like the Drowned Christ at the moment, and the whoa word was a foreign-sounding one to the Spanish-speaking kindergartners. Four or five of the terrifie...
What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture-- for te...
What bothered Ruth was that she needed to be with Rooie again -- just to see, as in a story, what would happen next. That meant Rooie was in charge.
We can afford the workers’ compensation, Harry—he’ll watch what he says the time next, won’t he? Nils would say. The ‘next time,’ Nils, Grandpa Harry would gently correct his old friend.
There was a twofold awkwardness attached to Juan Diego’s attempts to have sex with the life-size Guadalupe doll—better said, the awkwardness of Juan Diego’s imagining he was having sex with the plasti...
The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.
The Winkles appeared to greet the morning vigorously. Although Homer had never heard human beings make love, or moose mate, he knew perfectly well that the Winkles were mating. If Dr. Larch had been p...
THE PRESIDENT IS ELECTED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION; TO PUT THAT MORE BROADLY, HE’S CHOSEN TO UPHOLD THE LAW—HE’S NOT GIVEN A LICENSE TO OPERATE ABOVE THE LAW, HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE OUR EXAMPLE! Remembe...
She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.
Richard Abbott, who I thought knew everything, answered: I don’t know, exactly.
Remember, Juan Diego—you are a reader, Señor Eduardo said to the worried-looking boy. There is a life in books, and in the world of your imagination; there is more than the physical world, even here.
REMEMBER WATAHANTOWET? he asked me. I remember, I said. Then he smiled at the penguin who was trying to make him comfortable in her lap; her wimple was covered with his blood, and she had wrapped as m...
Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth.
Ogni volta che lanci una lumaca dalla darsena, Ray disse a Homer Wells per canzonarlo, costringi qualcuno a ricominciare la vita daccapo.Magari gli faccio un favore, disse Homer Wells, l'orfano.