29 quotes found
“The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.”
“The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me.”
“Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.”
“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”
“As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.”
“What the hell is that?" he asked."Magic mushrooms.""I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.”
“Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other ...”
“From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.”
“Women were still strange and inscrutable creatures. Men didnt understand them. And women didnt understand themselves either. It was always a performance of some sort. Everywhere you went, it was li...”
“Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasnt just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyones cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoo...”
“On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, i...”
“People gave you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this was the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a ...”
“Adam was charming and spoke perfect French. Like many anglophones in Montral, he actually spoke French better than we did. They knew exactly which verbs to use in the same way that people knew whic...”
“You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didnt get it. And they are all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent...”
“You know you're my best friend, right?' he said.I shrugged. I guessed it was true. Now that I wasn't going to be at the parade, they would all hate me. Everything had been carefully choreographed, ...”
“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a...”
“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”
“When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a ...”
“I stumbled out into the street, hoping that I looked like a drunken sailor. Everything was all topsy-turvy because my eyes were filled with tears. I clutched my shoes to my chest as I went. I cried...”
“That was desire messing with physics: putting its finger on the record and then slowing it down, making sure you heard every word spoken, and memorized it.”
“I had to admit that I had a strong tendency to date jokers. I couldnt say no to them. I would sit across from someone I was dating and try to imagine who in the entire world would date this nimrod ...”
