He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
A: Funny about my mother. All my life, from the time I was just a little kid, I thought of her as a sad person. I mean, the way some people are tall or fat or skinny. My father always seemed the stron...
Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there...
At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?
I have always pondered a tragic law of adolescence. (On second thought, the law probably applies to all ages to some extent). That law: People fall in love at the same time—often at the same stunning...
Внизу плакатика стояла надпись: Осмелюсь ли я потревожить вселенную? Слова Элиота — автора «Бесплодной земли», которую они проходили по литературе. [...]— Все будет хорошо, Джерри.Нет, не будет. Он уз...
We just might make a quarterback out of you yet, you skinny little son of a bitch.
They tell you to do your thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your own thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. It's a laugh, Goober, a fake. Don't disturb the universe,...
Archie believed in always doing the smart thing. Not the thing you ached to do, not the impulsive act, but the thing that would pay off later.
And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.
The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone
What have I done, Obie?Obie flung his hand in the air, the gesture encompassing all the rotten things that had occur under Archie's command, at Archie's direction. The ruined kids, the capsized hopes....
They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.
She didn't want to look ahead to the days and the months and the years with him. Here, now, in this room, it was all right, but later? Again, time couldn't stop. And she saw at last that time only sto...
I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That...
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archi...
Para los demás, él no era más que un nombre y un apellido. Pero Nina Citrone lo había reconocido como persona, había visto en él una amabilidad cuya existencia él mismo desconocía.