He’s afraid they’ll tell their kids to stay away from him and cross the street when they see him. Don’t talk to the crazy man, honey. He might bite you.Coming from someone covered in tattoos, this see...
Fuck! he said, the purity and forcefulness of the profanity cleansing in its simplicity. Fuck. Odd, he thought, how the word considered the most unutterable should be the one that represented, for man...
I think I’m in love, he said after swallowing. I could marry that pie.According to the anti-gay crowd, that’ll be next, said Nan. Pies and sheep.
When she saw me, my mother stood up and started to come toward me, but then stopped. I think maybe Cat Poop had told her not to make any sudden movements because they might scare me, like I’m a wild a...
I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'...
By the time we were done I was exhausted. I don’t know how movie stars do the same scene over and over like that. It takes a lot out of you.
This is the part where they try to make you remember, said Sadie. She looked at my wrists. Is it working? Without realizing it, I’d pushed one sleeve of my pajamas up and was rubbing the gauze that ci...
I love that word. Gaydar. So clever.I’m afraid mine is broken, Burke said. It never occurred to me that you were gay.It’s because I’m teeming with masculinity, Gaither joked.
I've heard it argued that men aren't physically wired to be with only one person. We have a built-in biological need to scatter our seed as far and as wide as possible. Something about survival of our...
Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.
Byron clapped Walter on the back. 'Good work,' he said.Walter shook his head. 'You're the one who clocked her with the Stephen King hardcover. That took some of the wind out of her.''Thank heavens he'...
Astronotların uzayda salınıp yeryüzüne döndükten sonra, burası onlara çürüyen bir et gibi koktuğu için midelerinin kötü olduğunu okumuştum bir yerlerde. Biz diğer insanlar, her gün soluduğumuz için bu...
That’s why teenage dating is so dumb, because it’s doomed to fail. You’d think people would have learned that by now, but I guess they haven’t. They go right on falling in love and thinking it’s going...
Who uses crunchy peanut butter? he asked the room. You might as well eat squirrel shit.
If they had a pill that would fix every dysfunctional family in the world, don’t you think they’d be selling it?I don’t think the world is ready for that kind of happiness.
I’m just saying that sometimes forgetting how much things hurt makes you do them again. And that’s not always such a hot idea.
Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?
I’m gay, I said, not sure how else to say it.You’re fifteen, she said. You can’t be gay.
If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.
How much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?
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