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light spilling over the western horizon
Western?
It was a tall blue afternoon, just pleasantly warm.
What?
“Isn’t that an odd name,” she asked, “for a boy? I mean, Buster?
It's clearly a girl's name
The Perihelion campus—which Jason had called, alarmingly, “the compound”—
Every once in awhile this book busts out a pretty good sentence
He had eaten maybe a spoonful.
Who eats eggs with a spoon?
Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.
“Come on, Tyler, learn to take a joke.
Dump her
an honest book is almost as good as a friend.”
Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins—people who had long ago fathomed the distance between the street and the stars.
“Thank you, Tyler. I know how awful I look. Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. Not quite ready for my close-up, thank you very effing much.” I didn’t know what she was talking about.
You don't know what she's talking about? I thought people who hadn't even seen the movie still know that scene.
Traveling at night dramatically increased my chances of being robbed or murdered.
Moon Knight will protect you.
We used the torn-off bottoms of empty plastic bottles as makeshift cups and ate Cheerios moistened with tepid water. It looked and tasted like mucilage.
Just eat it dry
She had lost a husband and a faith
And her brother
a phone I had carried even though it seldom rang.
That's just my regular phone
