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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST
head is still just body, Jim. Commit this to memory. Head is body.
potential may be worse than none,
talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost.
What is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher.
If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one. It is easier than you think.
That most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking. That the cute Boston AA term for addictive-type thinking is: Analysis-Paralysis.
That other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid.
‘I mean literally lost his mind, like the massive dose picked his mind up and carried it off somewhere and put it down someplace and forgot where.’
I’d become obsessed with the fear that I was somehow going to flunk grief-therapy.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can’t even hear because you’re in such a rush to or from something important you’ve tried to engineer.
‘I am amused while you make a way toward your point so slowly.’
The choice, see. It ruins it somehow. With television you were subjected to repetition. The familiarity was inflicted. Different now.’
One of his troubles with his Moms is the fact that Avril Incandenza believes she knows him inside and out as a human being, and an internally worthy one at that, when in fact inside Hal there’s pretty much nothing at all, he knows. His Moms Avril hears her own echoes inside him and thinks what she hears is him, and this makes Hal feel the one thing he feels to the limit, lately: he is lonely.
‘They Can Kill You, But the Legalities of Eating You Are Quite a Bit Dicier.’
The Mad Stork always used to say clichés earned their status as clichés because they were so obviously true.’
254. Gately’s made it an iron point never again ever to run, once he got straight.
(there’s something surreal about a very tall woman on her knees),
