102 quotes found
“The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
“I couldnt help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching themit was a kind of sad I didnt mind, and so I just listened, letting all t...”
“He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?”
“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.”
“To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.”
“I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, whic...”
“I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.”
“The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.”
“I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.”
“Im not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.”
“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never get struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract...”
“My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.”
“I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.”
“I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe were grassour ro...”
“That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.”
“Big, ugly homes for big, ugly people,' I told Margo as we pulled into Casavilla.'No shit. If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms, do me a favor and shoot me.”
“Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map b...”
“You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.”
“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can...”
“It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.”
