“Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death”
“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.”
“But there's always a first time for everything”
“He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”
“Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
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“She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jack."
"Yes?"
"I. . ." she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words.
It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.”
“He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that.
And when he leaves her, I'll be there.
However long it takes, I'll still be there for her.
Waiting.”
“When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”
“You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.”
“It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”
“One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.”
“If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.”
“It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.”
“As Jack slung an arm around his sister's shoulders in an intimate and affectionate way, something in her heart broke.”
“Leave it alone Schuyler. For your sake and mine.”
“Jack put a hand on his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.”
“They were embarking on a journey into the darkness inside themselves.”
“They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn’t exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn’t want to check into CrazyTown any time soon.”
“So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.”
“The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.”
“As Henry Ford said, "Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.”
“Much of the borderline’s dramatic behavior is related to his interminable search for something to fill the emptiness that continually haunts him. Relationships and drugs are two of the mechanisms the borderline uses to combat the loneliness and to capture a sense of existing in a world that feels real. CASE”
“She dropped the matter, and his birthday remained May 28. Armed with the Social Security card, the birth certificate, and the letter from Principal Simpson of the Briarcrest Christian School, they drove the next day to the Department of Motor Vehicles. This time they had Collins in tow. Collins”
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