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“Well, I’m not doing coke.” “I’m a little disappointed,”
“Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes,” their father told them. “Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are.”
It’s like, no matter where you are or what you’re doing, you have to try like hell to keep from getting bored to death.”
What you’ll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.”
He could count on one hand the number of times he’d had sex and still have enough fingers left over to make complicated shadow puppets.
“It’s what we do; we distort the world; we make it vibrate,
Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren’t present could derive meaning from it?
“What do you think I’m going to do?” she asked him. “Whatever it is,” he answered, “I think you’ll be terrified when it happens. Don’t let that stop you.”
