311 quotes found
“Well, most of us think the Merchant of Venice is a porno script. On a more personal note, Ive decided on pizza for dinner.”
“Sometimes I get the feeling [my parents have] asked me to hold this big invisible secret for them, like a backpack full of rocks--all these things they don't want to know about themselves. I'm supp...”
“It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in”
“The music is happy; the laughter is happy. Everything feels ecstatic and desperate. Blurrily, I think of sex, and I think of death. I realize: Every moment of joyous celebration contains the seed o...”
“It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...”
“Mom let go of us and leaned back so she could look us both in the eye. No more spending the night in the tree fort, you two.”
“And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.”
“Goodbye. Goodbye. I can't feel you anymore. The night is almost too beautifully pure for my soul to contain. I walk with my arms spread open under the big fat moon. Heroic weeds rise up from the cr...”
“A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.”
“That could also be because at one point during the film, our hands found each other. And when I felt Michael's middle finger caress the inside of my palm, it sent a tickle up my spine, and the fing...”
“This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin.”
“That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.”
“Perhaps friendship doesn't divert sound judgment.”
“I couldn't believe it.Something wasn't right.I thought, "Batman smokes cigarettes."I couldn't believe it. "Batman smokes fucking cigarettes."I walked away and saw that Batman was just this stupid g...”
“The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]”
“Somewhere, a rattlesnake strike makes the dance begin. Three hawks float in the light blue sky overhead. Crows caw and the sweet seduction of lavender fills my head. And she waltzes through my thou...”
“The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.”
“Its a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.”
“In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.”
“Its sad really, trying to appreciate all of the great events in our lives and all the amazingly good days. Sometimes it seems like we take them for granted, until something bad comes along to put u...”
