“It's the kind of leather seat that pulls you in, begs to to relax against it.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.
The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a commando team to take a dump.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“You think that just because you’re in a politician’s house, you’re seeing the real person? Pretty naive, Ben.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“I listen as I walk down the hall, measuring off the seconds before she closes the door. With a friend, you might close it right behind them. With someone you’re interested in, you might wait a few seconds before closing. And with someone you’re falling for . . . With someone you’re falling for, you don’t go inside. You wait and watch them go. Just like she’s doing now.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
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“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.”
― Frederik Pohl, quote from Gateway
“În vremea aceasta se lăsa întunericul, iar singurătatea - singurătatea aceea înșelătoare, când omul, singur, nu este totuși singur, ci într-o dureroasă relație sufletească cu un alt om de dincolo de perete - dar îndeajuns de singur pentru ca frecarea mâinilor, încleștarea degetelor și alte manifestări să fie stupide - prin urmare, întunericul și acea falsă singurătate îmi pătrundeau în cap, mă orbeau, îmi răpeau și ultimele senzații de luciditate, mă aruncau în noapte. De câte ori noaptea nu ni se insenuează în zi! Singur, în camera aceasta, pe scăunel, în această acțiune, eram prea ireal și nu mai puteam rămâne prea mult timp aici. Procesele, care nu sunt primejdioase când le trăiești împreună cu cineva și aievea, devin insuportabil în lipsa unui partener. Singurătatea este sufocantă. Așa că, după un chin mai îndelungat, am deschis din nou ușa, am apărut în prag, ieșind din singurătate, orbecăind ca un liliac. Oprindu-mă în prag, mi-am dat seama că iar nu știu cum să încep și cum s-o abordez, era în continuare extrem de izolată și de închisă, diabolică treabă acest contur clar și precis al formei umane, această linie rece care ne particularizează - forma!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, quote from Ferdydurke
“Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from Theatre
“Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Consort
“So much for the sexy moment, I thought. Saved by monkey gas.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from Wicked Appetite
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