“Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”
― Ethan Hawke, quote from The Hottest State
“It's kind of like this," Decker said: "You wake up in the middle of the night and you're dying for a glass of milk. So you stumble out of bed, stub your toe in the darkness, scream with pain, and limp your way to the refrigerator. You open it up and the light is brilliant. You're saved. Then you fold back the paper container, open up the milk, take a deep breath, and put it to your lips. Only --- yhrch! --- the milk is spoiled. Sure, you're bummed. You fold the thing close and put it back in the fridge. It's dark again. But as you're making your way to your lonely old bed, you think to yourself, Wait a minute, maybe that milk wasn't so bad. And I am still thirsty? So you do an about-face and go back to the fridge. The light warms you up again. You take a sip and yup, it's still spoiled. That, to me, is the fitting metaphor for most every relationship I've ever been in.”
― Ethan Hawke, quote from The Hottest State
“Look, I have no idea what's going on," I said, catching my breath. "I don't like myself either. I don't know what's happening to me. I don't want to tell you to fuck off. But you gotta understand, everything in my life feels different. I just want so badly to know if you like me. And I know how asinine that sounds. If you want me to leave you alone, I will, but sometimes... sometimes you meet somebody and you know that whatever you did before, whatever your life was before, it must have been right... nothing could've been too bad or gone too far wrong because it led you to this person. You're that person. Do you want me to go away?”
― Ethan Hawke, quote from The Hottest State
“I don’t remember waking up that Sunday morning —- perhaps I never slept. Iwas just sitting up in bed watching Sarah sleep. She’d slept naked in my bed but she hadn’t let me have sex with her. I didn’t care. I loved watching her sleep. The light was falling through my window, all over the blue sheets of my old bed, and onto her face. I lifted up the sheets and watched her breasts move with her breath. They seemed to be sleeping themselves.
I hoped that she wouldn’t wake up. I laid the sheet back over her, right up to her chin.
I looked up and out of my room.
I thought, This must be what praying is like.”
― Ethan Hawke, quote from The Hottest State
“I want to want to try to never waste energy degrading someone else. Also, I want to try not to see life as a competition.”
― Ethan Hawke, quote from The Hottest State
Ethan Hawke
Born place: in Austin, Texas, The United States
Born date November 6, 1970
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Гъстонаселено се автотранспортирах в общоизвестното южнопарижко местонаправление и се самоозовах близкостоящ до един дълговрат плетеноширитен дръжми-шапковец. Гореописаният трагикомично слаботелесен нехранимайко с плиткодънна многозначителност умопомрачи еди-кого си с долуказаното: “Като целенасочено своеволничите, вие нееднократно злоупотребявате с телосложението ми!” След животрептущето си словоизлияние преждеговорившият правостоящ скорострелно се облагодетелства от междувременно обезлюдилата се едноместна автоседалка.
Подир двучасово времетраене мимоходом го лицесъзрях да площадосенлазарства с гологлав доброжелател, който нравоучително и чистосърдечно празнословеше: “Целесъобразно е да преокомплектоваш по-благоразумно полушубката си!” И умозаключително изсладкодумничи причинно-следствената взаимовръзка.”
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― Christopher Daniel Mechling, quote from Peter: The Untold True Story
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― Laura Kinsale, quote from Flowers from the Storm
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