Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

I think you are the most prettiest girl in the whole world. I like you very much and I love

Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you’ve believed in all your life aren’t true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

“No, it’s you. You touch my eyes and make me see.”

Something inside is burning me up, and all I know is it makes me think of you. I’m in the middle of a page and I see your face on it—not

“I’m pretending I don’t exist.”

Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now.

She was right in refusing to torture herself by being with me.

My father never mentioned Him—it was as if God was one of Rose’s relatives he’d rather not get involved with.

for a moment I brush against someone and sense the connection between the branch and trunk and the deep root.

But the moment I came close to Alice, he panicked. Why was he afraid to let me love Alice?

suddenly I realized the only way to overcome this paralysis was to outwit him.

Outwit your demon

“I’ll turn out the lights,” she whispered. “No,” I said, pulling her down onto the couch again. “I want to look at you.”

...

I went home and made love to Fay, but kept thinking of Alice.

>:(

intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.”

This was the way we loved, until the night became a silent day.

And as I lay there with her I could see how important physical love was, how necessary it was for us to be in each other’s arms, giving and taking.

It’s painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.

I want to stop time, freeze myself at this level and never let go of her.

so Im going someplace where they are a lot of other pepul like me and nobody cares that Charlie Gordon was once a genus

This is so sad

Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit.

:(

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Oh my god :((((((