But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won’t be like this. Life can be so cruel. It doles out just enough hope to keep you going, like a small cup of water and one...
When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.
Dad said certain people's sanity, in order to maintain a healthy equilibrium, required getting messy once in a while, what he called going Chekhovian: some people, every now and then, simply had to ha...
You want the girl next door? Go next door!
Due to Jade's fortresslike manner, which, like any well-built castle, made access challenging, girls found her existence not only threatening but flat-out wrong. Although Bartelby Athletic Center feat...
God, the boring relative everyone ignores—no one calls, no one writes—until they need a serious favor.
I think I repeated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in my head at least one thousand times: the mathematical product of the combined uncertainties of concurrent measurements of position and moment...
I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to runoff with some slack-jawed Suzy, some invertebrate, a post-pubescentwasteoid who imagines the Khmer Rouge to be makeup and Guerrilla Warfareto be that rivalry w...
It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary...
That was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s when all the real things were said.
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.
Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there’s not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can’t help but feel there’s ne...
Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.
Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed up by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of wilderness. They needed reincarnation. To die and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking...
No way, man. I got one rule as a driver.What’s that?Never look in da rearview mirror. We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab.It’s not healthy to keep a’ watchin’ what you leavin’ behind...
Oh? Now tell me your gut reaction to the following words. Colonial.Dellahay. Wood. Patio. Five Pieces. Sun resistant, wind resistant, JudgmentDay resistant. Amazing value at just $299. And consider th...
She was inches from my face, really , as if it were a section of a globe she'd never closely inspected before, an ocean filled with strings of unnamed islands.
Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean? ...in truth, I DID know what she meant. Da Vinci, Martin Luther King, Jr., Genghis Kahn, Abraham Lincoln, Bette Davis - if you read...
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, .
They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much.
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