“What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.”
“Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.”
“When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.”
“I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her."
"Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.”
“Nothing is 'just' anything with you”
“Yeah, you're probably right," I admitted and slowly pulled myself out from underneath the covers.
"You know, I really wish you'd catch onto the fact that I'm always right.”
“It's not my fault everybody wants me”
“I am on my way, and tell him he better watch his ass!” Jack shouted, and I held the phone away from
ear so it wouldn’t damage my eardrums.
“Real mature, Jack,” Peter scoffed”
“You know what would be fun?
Nobody wants to play Guitar Hero.
But you can play the Beatles! You loved the Beatles!”
“You can bite me if you want. I want you to.”
“You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?”
“You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!”
“Cuando Bailas con el diablo, no es el diablo el que cambia.El Diablo te Cambia a Ti.-Jack a Alice”
“(Scientists haven’t tested this, but I’ve come to find that a Gatorade, a bowl of Fruity Pebbles, and an Excedrin will cure any hangover.) “Hung”
“Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.”
“A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, "People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it.”
“I also realized that there’s a difference between soul mates and true love.”
”Is one type of love better than the other? I don’t know, but I’m lucky enough to have found them both.”
“Yes, I know," he said, impatient. "I am going to rend you from limb to limb. Someday. When I feel like it. In the meantime, you will not faint, you will get warm, and you will stop being distressed." His nostrils pinched. "I don't like how it smells.”
“That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.”
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