Alex Adams > Quotes

“How do you file a restraining order against sadness?”
― Alex Adams, White Horse

“My two best friends are dead, which means they're great listeners now, but lousy as far as support goes.”
― Alex Adams, White Horse

“Otherwise I'll do something that I won't be able to live with. And that's important to me, being able to live with my actions. My thoughts are a different story. They've my own and they don't hurt anyone but me.”
― Alex Adams, White Horse

“Love fills all the gaps in our souls.”
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“Detach or go crazy.”
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“And while I tell him all my thoughts, I don't always share my secrets.”
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“Please don't' ask me how I feel about it. If I had to pick a word, I'd say homicidal.”
― Alex Adams, White Horse

“You'll love him. Or maybe you'll just love him a time or two.”
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“She's unhurt—or at least not bleeding on the oustide.”
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“I think my invisibility cloak just failed.”
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“I don't want him to think I'm crazy, because I'm not. Desperate is what I am. Quietly desperate and insatiably curious.”
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“He reels me in, cups my face with both hands, and becomes my whole world. This is a kiss--maybe the last one we'll ever know, so we stay there forever, warm and safe. When he pulls away, something is lost. I think it's my heart.”
― Alex Adams, White Horse

“If the world ends tomorrow, understand that I regret saying no.”
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“You're on a blind date. The only other questions is: Why aren't you drinking heavily?”
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“Have you ever been in love?
Yes.
What's it like?
Great and terrible. Like Oz.”
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“I've heard the story about the woman who opened the box and let havoc grab a choke hold on the world.”
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“It's satisfying. It yields immediate results. Something is dirty. Then it's not.”
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“When I awake, the world is still gone.”
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“You're not dead.
I'm not dead.
Why? How?
Dying wasn't on my list.”
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“Worst case I'll bring Rain Man here. I'll tell him it's a date.
Aha, so he's cute, then?
Tasty. And smart. Can't beat that witha stick.”
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“My sister's voice is Minnie Mouse and a dash of fingernails down a chalkboard, but only when she wants to bend me to her will.”
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“Do you realize you're talking to yourself?
Yes.
It's good that you know the difference.”
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“It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges. Saints on one end, sinners on the other.”
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“You want something to drink?
Is this a trick question?
Yes. I'm going to read your personality based on your beverage choices, so choose wisely.”
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“Five years, my family thinks it's time I moved on. I'd like to move on with a non-asshole”
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“Are you menstruating?
what?
You're angry. Women are often angry when they menstruate. It is the hormones.”
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“I have two choices: attend my sister's dinner party or tie a plastic sack around my mother's head until she runs out of ngagging. I choose the evil that doesn't come witha felony conviction.”
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“I pray to a God I don't really have faith in just so I feel like I have company.”
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“It's old. Really old.
Is that a technical term?
Yeah, it's technical. Translation: I don't know how old it is, but it's really fucking old.
Wow. That is old.”
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“Just so we're clear, I dont' secretly want to have sex with either of my parents.
Me either. I worked through that in college just to make sure. It was touch and go for a while, especially when my father kept asking me if he looked pretty.”
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