“Marcus looked down. “Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?” he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.”
“You know,” he said, “P.S.S. Piss Camp.”
“Yeah, I get it,” I said, “It’s just not funny.”
“...but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.”
“Let’s just say, there’s not much of a moon out tonight,” Nose continued anyway, “but if Yale joined us, there would be.”
“I know babe" he said, wrapping me in his arms. I could hear the loudly thu-bump of his heart as he picked me up and carried me like a child. And he called me Babe.”
“Gone was the insignificant, defective girl. I was some kind of f**king comic book vigilante & it felt amazing! ”
“Don’t think about that. Don’t think about him.”
“Instead, I just sat there crying, hoping he’d come find me, which made me cry even harder.”
“Los viejos hábitos son difíciles de eliminar.”
“Was he just humouring me? Just giving me the illusion of control while he manipulated me into doing what he wanted with his overwhelming proximity?”
“La vida volvía a ser solitaria para mí. Como era algo que parecía no tener remedio, lo tomé con resignación.”
“The death of one god is the death of all.”
“I told [Hu Jintao] I stayed awake worrying about another terrorist attack on America. He quickly replied that his biggest concern was creating twenty-five million new jobs a year. I found his answer fascinating, It was honest. It showed he worried about the impact of disaffected, unemployed masses. It explained his government's policies in resource-rich places like Iran and Africa. And it was a signal that he was a practical leader focused inward, not an ideologue likely to stir up trouble abroad.”
“Epic sex?" I sputtered. "By what standards, precisely, is sex judged to be epic?"
"And tons and tons of mortal simps like you used as pawns." Bob sighed happily, ignoring my question. "There are no words. It was like the Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine.”
“Don't you get it?" he asked. "Every time you try to protect me, you end up breaking my heart.”
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