“Lemties neįmanoma įžvelgti, nebent jei sapnuoji ar esi apsvaigęs iš meilės.”
“Aren’t eccentricities fairly common among overachievers.”
“As for Dr. Zajac’s modest contribution to the ongoing pollution of the Charles River… well, let’s be fair… In his hopelessly old-fashioned opinion, a lot worse than dogshit was dumped into the Charles on daily basis.”
“And feeling like a failed sexual predator, because of pregnant Mary…”
“Americans are suckers for an English accent.”
“When they weren’t praying, they did what schoolgirls everywhere do. They laughed, they shrieked, they burst into hysterical sobs – all for no apparent reason…
The schoolgirls also played the worst Western music imaginable, and they took a surfeit of baths – so many baths that the traditional inn where Wallingford and Evelyn Arbuthnot stayed was repeatedly running out of hot water.”
“There is often a defining experience that marks any significant change in the course of a person’s life.”
“Was he nice? He didn’t know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know?”
“he gets all this advice. Anyway, I don’t think Frank”
“I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.”
“One purpose, one thought, one obsession dominated that mind now. It burned in the brain of Darth Vader as he turned down another passageway in the broken fighter.”
“I'm trusting you not to break my heart. If it gets even a scratch, I'll break your face. -Shaye”
“Starbucks and their ilk are for meeting with people you don't care to meet with and finishing term papers.”
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