“Even if a thing is doomed—there is that moment of absurd hope that is worth the fall, that is worth everything.”
“Thinking about drinking now was like fantasizing about the perfect crime. How he would do it—if he were going to do it.”
“I'm a fucking porcupine with points.”
“At root, the business of baseball was no better or different from the movies or from church: put on a show, promise people something transcendent, and then bleed the suckers dry.”
“He was backing away behind cover fire with the engaged smile of a teenager seeing his violent daydreams come true.”
“nine times out of ten, romance is a problem, not a solution.”
“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache which he would entertain briefly, but learn to keep at bay. Mostly, however, it was the contentment he entertained; the slow ease and the silence could, once night had fallen, fill him with a happiness that nothing, no society nor the company of any individual, no glamour or glitter, could equal.”
“I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.”
“If I could throw Nelly out the door without killing him, I would.”
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“A wonderful place, the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure, it’s that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are already familiar to it.”
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