“Families were nothing more than hope cast out in a wide net, everyone wanting only the best.”
― The Vacationers
― The Vacationers
“The past had power. The past was a riptide. That's why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water.”
― The Long and Faraway Gone
― The Long and Faraway Gone
“She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“My dad and I once had a fight because I refused to put ketchup on my hot dogs," I said.
"That's possibly the most American sentence I've ever heard.”
― The Royal We
"That's possibly the most American sentence I've ever heard.”
― The Royal We
“I swear the older I get, the more I value bad examples over good ones. It's a good thing too, because most people are egotistical, neurotic, self-absorbed peons, insistent on wearing near-sighted glasses in a far-sighted world. And it's this exact sort of myopic ignorance that has led to my groundbreaking new theory. I call it Mim's Theorem of Monkey See Monkey Don't, and what it boils down to is this: it is my belief that there are some people whose sole purpose of existence is to show the rest of how not to act.”
― Mosquitoland
― Mosquitoland
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