Joseph Gordon-Levitt · 87 pages
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“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”
“The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.”
“Well, look who I ran into,"
crowed Coincidence.
"Please," flirted Fate, "this
was meant to be.”
“The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.”
“If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.”
“A man touched me:
his hand... my thigh.
I touched him too:
my fist... his jaw.”
“I collect flickering stars
in old pickling jars,
poking holes in the lids
so they can breathe.”
“You're gone. No mailing address.
But I send you letters anyway.”
“I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.”
“When you become a ghost
feel free to haunt me.”
“The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.”
“It's HE-RO," the boy argued.
"No," the girl insisted,
"it's HER-O.”
“The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.”
“I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!
Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!”
“Okay, I'll admit, I have a few skeletons in my closet; but they weren't skeletons when I put them there.”
“beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures—a stallion born wild—and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.”
“We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”
“I want to go home.' The moment the smell hit her, the words came into her head. She didn't know exactly what home it was she wanted to go to, certainly not the one she'd just left. But why didn't she want to go back there? And where did she want to go? She felt lost.”
“I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
“When no buyers were near, he talked to me earnestly to impress upon me how valuable work would be to me in the future: 'Some men hate it. They make it their enemy. Better to treat it like a friend, make thyself like it. Don't mind because it is hard. If thou thinkest about what a good house thou build, then who cares if the beams are heavy and it is far from the well to carry the water for the plaster. Promise me, boy, if thou get a master, work for him as hard as thou canst. If he does not appreciate all thou do, never mind. Remember, work, well-done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.”
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