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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

"Sometimes you have a little problem and you don't fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a little problem anymore. You understand what I'm tellin you?"

"She's always known that her reaction to that night had been too big, or perhaps too small. She hadn't ever cried. She hadn't told anyone. She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything".

"She's always known that her reaction to that night had been too big, or perhaps too small. She hadn't ever cried. She hadn't told anyone. She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything".

"This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old girl, but not it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if you got to choose how things turned out".

"People grow up, they grow up and leave the kids they were behind."
"Do they?"

Cigarettes were Agent Orange that you paid for.

"You still smoking?"
"I've retired. As of last year."
[...]
"It's the worst habit."
"Actually, I think living's the worst habit."

I wanted to be a writer, after all, not a damned English teacher, and I had an idea that only pompous writers needed college to do what they did.

The tears in his eyes over-spilled and began to run down his cheeks. He'd gotten used to feeling old; feeling young again-knowing he could feel young again-was a terrible disorienting shock.

She ran across the street and out of his life without looking back a second time. Perhaps that was just as well.

I'm going to smoke Chesterfields, he decided. I'm going to smoke them all my life.

"He raised his mostly smokes cigarette and looked at it distastefully. 'The way you smoke one too many of these and you're hooked for life.' "

nts: good quote for review

"Ya know what? Dahmer is probably a serial killer by now!
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And we all laughed."

WOW. The foreshadowing is giving me chills. If only these guys had known. Or rather, if anyone had known.

I love the way the author/artist drew Dahmer in this, he's just so creepy. The dark shadows on his eyes is the perfect way to instil a sense of unease in the reader. Also, the style of the artwork really adds to the theme and story behind & within each panel in the novel.

I'm only just reading the "Praise for My Friend Dahmer" section of this graphic novel, and I already have goosebumps. This one is going to be good, I can tell.

Tiny [...] changes [...] will create positive habits. Positive habits will create results. And results will inspire you towards greater personal change. Begin to live each day as if it was your last. Starting today, learn more, laugh more and do what you truly love to do. Do not be denied your destiny. For what lies behind you and what lies in front of you matters little when compared to what lies beneath you."

"Have the discipline to focus your time around your priorities. The most meaningful things in your life should never be sacrificed to those that are the least meaningful. And remember, failing to plan is planning to fail."

"By the time most people figure out what they really want and how to go about attaining it, it's usually too late."

"Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind."

"I would never tell you not to read as many books as you can. But remember, some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole."

"I never saw thoughts as living things, Julian," I replied, amazed at this discovery. "But I can see how they influence every element of my world."

"How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love you if I cannot love myself."

"This would be the place where he would rekindle the fire for living that he had known before the legal profession stole his soul, a sanctuary where his broken spirit would slowly start to heal."

"My life might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life."

"The young hang mirrors in their homes. The elderly hang paintings."

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I can only handle this book in short bursts, it's terrifying.

old friends drifting apart because that's what old friends do