“The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie”

“dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.”

“In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I want to, cry, die, beat their breasts, and bray with life.”

“Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the graphite.”

“I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.”

“the sensations she was asking about were very pleasant; some of them were nothing short of delicious; but to know them one simply had to go barefoot. I could sense a mixture of envy and fearful res...”

“Soil is earths barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!”

“I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactly what.”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.”

“Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.”

“In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.”