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“He was cross-examining my subconscious .”
“No one here is embarrassed of their gift.”
“Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!”
“...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.”
“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.”
“They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.”
“If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It...”
“Millard! Who's the prime minister?""Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?""What's the capital of Burma?""Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?""Good! When's your birthday?""Will you quit shoutin...”
“I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is ma...”
“She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.”
“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”
“What would Golan Do? That way I can ask myself before I do anything. Before I take a dump. How would Dr. Golan want me to take this dump? Should I bank it off the side or go straight down the middl...”
“Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully."We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it.”
“You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty.""Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied”
“..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.”
“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, ...”
“It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”
“It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”
“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.”
“Though I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in all manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future. And as doors to the next world go, a bog ain't a bad choice. It's not quite wat...”
“I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.”
