“I think that's what we all want, in the end.
To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.
We want to be remembered.
So remember us.
Please.
Remember us.”
“Not everyone has to fly high to prove they exist; some of us are perfectly happy flying low and enjoying the view.”
“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids”
“Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.”
“In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own”
“It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe"
"I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ...”
“You don’t get involved, you don’t get let down”
“How was it even possible to know if your brain was malfunctioning, because the very thing you need to think it all through is the very thing that might be playing up in the first place”
“Not if you like lies so much you want to live one”
“We simply don’t have enough data to form a conclusion”
“Esta es mi familia.
Te vuelve absolutamente loco.
Pero los extrañas cuando ya no están aquí.”
“You kids are handling this a whole lot better than he is.’
I wondered if that meant we were pretty darned tough.
Or whether we simply lacked the imagination to see how bad things really were”
“Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.”
“I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you always brothers in arms. Whether it was but recently (for time is nothing), or at the beginning of the world, I sent you out to war. I sat in the darkness, where there is not any created thing, and to you I was only a voice commanding valour and an unnatural virtue. You heard the voice in the dark, and you never heard it again. The sun in heaven denied it, the earth and sky denied it, all human wisdom denied it. And when I met you in the daylight I denied it myself...But you were men. You did not forget your secret honour, though the whole cosmos turned an engine of torture to tear it out of you.”
“I’ve always felt uncomfortable giving people what they want or expect.”
“Even a year later, Bush remarked to a friend, with uncharacteristic bluntness: “I wouldn’t care if I never see Richard Nixon again.”
“Quiet Romeo was a scary Romeo. It was like the calm before the storm. Or an empty football stadium.”
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