“You may exist in
this world--but I exist too
and I will not yield”
“Air goes in and out
of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart
brain - and so I am”
“For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about really. And it is best not to dwell on said things for too long, because you will find that life has no real meaning if you do.”
“I don't want to brag or anything, but I'm sorta like a rock star to these people.”
“Sometimes you just have to let crap slide when it comes to adults acting like kids, because that can be a beautiful thing. True? True.”
“There is only one of me and so many of the people who are not like me, and maybe I'm just an amusing distraction for those other people, Maybe I'm just a freak. A sideshow.”
“I want to have an assistant someday who will make freaky teens cool T-shirts so that they can do good things in style. I want to be Donna. So frickin' much.”
“I spread hope.
I'm a hope spreader.”
“I marvel at her - a woman with stocks and business suits and her own house.”
“She never laughs or smiles or tells a joke. She reminds me of a robot caked in meat.”
“As I pedal, I start to get a bad feeling. I start to feel like I have everything all wrong, and that everyone else is right, and all my hopefulness is just childish bullcrap.”
“We cry together- on the couch for different- reasons, but it helps.”
“Father Chee?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"Why do some people go through life never knowing a single major tragedy, and then others have horrible things happen to them over and over again?"
"I don't know.”
“The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smie”
“Flowers
Are in the
Ground,
Where we
Cannot see
The
Future
Wonderment”
“The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smile”
“How many
Pieces
Of bread
Separate
These words:
Needy,
Fine,
Wasteful?”
“Writing
Haikus one
After the
Other,
Knowing
Only the
Moment”
“The fallen
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates”
“Tell me that you won't live your life afraid, but will grow up and live a better life than your mother could ever imagine.”
“We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.”
“Complex ideas must be made simple, or they'll remain ideas and never be put into action.”
“We can be only too grateful that an Archbishop of Braga should have immersed himself so deeply in theological speculation, armed and equipped as he was for war, with his coat of mail, his broadsword dangling from the”
“I've lived and seen enough to know how difficult it is to settle for a small life when you're destined for greatness.”
“Don't leave me, Bertie. I'm lost."
"What do you mean, lost?"
"I came out for a walk and suddenly discovered after a mile or two that I didn't know where on earth I was. I've been wandering round in circles for hours."
"Why didn't you ask the way?"
"I can't speak a word of French."
"Well, why didn't you call a taxi?"
"I suddenly discovered I'd left all my money at my hotel."
"You could have taken a cab and paid it when you got to the hotel."
"Yes, but I suddenly discovered, dash it, that I'd forgotten its name."
And there in a nutshell you have Charles Edward Biffen. As vague and woollen-headed a blighter as ever bit a sandwich.”
“Once you're out here in the world, nobody cares where you used to live. Who you are, that's what counts.”
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