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Ostrich Ostrich by Matt Greene
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“Hope is not the thing with feathers. Hope is an anchor. What keeps you from floating away. Despair is weightless.”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich
“This is the lesson: that sometimes something ugly is just something beautiful that I do not yet fully understand.”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich
“Bungee Jump is to Suicide as General Anaesthetic is to Lethal Injection. You only know the difference on the way back up.”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich
“I can tell my parents are unhappy by the way they smile at waiters. In that small act of ingratiation I can see the custody battle to come.”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich
“Loving someone means being prepared to do anything to protect them. Even if the only thing you can protect them from is the truth.”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich
“Simon Nagel is an Alkaline Jew and his grandfather was in a concentration camp (I forget which one. It’s definitely not Auschwitz but it would be one of the other top answers in Family Fortunes if they ever did that round).”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich
“Having people talk down to you is the absolute worst part about being a kid.”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich
“which means sacrificing some of my”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich
“I can swear in sixty-seven different languages. But I can apologize in only three, which means I could get beat up in sixty-four other countries.”
― Matt Greene, Ostrich