16 quotes found
“I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.”
“Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?”
“I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.”
“It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?”
“She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.”
“The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.”
“I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away by the beautiful blue sky. I lean forward and reach my hand behind my back, then take my sign off...”
“As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.”
“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.”
“As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I CAN THROW A FOOTBALL. Mr. Shunk's would read, I WISH I COULD TOSS YOU ALL ON A...”
“Then I think of Charlie and our first New Years apart, and how I miss him. I miss him so much, but its confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and thats the bitch of it all. I miss...”
“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?”
“I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.”
“Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)”
“--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.”
“Then I think of Charlie and our first New Year’s apart, and how I miss him. I miss him so much, but it’s confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and that’s the bitch of it all. I m...”
