How do people cope? Do you have to go? What happens if you refuse on the grounds of it being just too fucking grim?
How could there be a bad song called ‘Iron Man’, or ‘War Pigs’, or – my cup ranneth over – ‘Rat Salad’?
His father fell off a window-ledge. No wonder his mum had cheered up.
He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. Always tell your kids they have siblings... He couldn't imagine any child-raising gu...
He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first.
He accused her of being bourgeois, whatever that was—it seemed to involve engagement rings and babies and all sorts of things she wasn’t interested in. He got so heated about them that for a moment sh...
Forse la cosa migliore da fare, con i film e i libri preferiti, è lasciarli stare: se sono riusciti a esaltarci tanto, significa che sono arrivati nel posto giusto e al momento giusto della nostra vit...
For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own
Do I want to be like him? Not really, I don't think. But I find myself worrying away at that stuff about pop music again, whether I like it because I'm unhappy, or whether I'm unhappy because I like.
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then...
Berdua saja tidaklah cukup, itu adalah masalahnya. Ia selalu berpikir bahwa dua adalah angka yang tepat, dan ia benci untuk hidup dalam keluarga berjumlah tiga, empat, atau lima. Tapi, sekarang ia bis...
Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century.
Being a freak isn’t the same thing as having a talent.
Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to...
And she liked me. She liked . liked me. She
We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.
Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.
Четирийсет и една минути по-късно, докато ровеше из джобовете си за нещо, което можеше да използва вместо кърпичка, към него се приближи възрастна жена и го докосна по рамото.- Искате ли да си поговор...