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.”
“At six-fifteen the sun snuck up and mugged the moon.”
“In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.”
“Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland’s”
“he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America”
“The earth will probably sink and drown; but at least it will be the result of generally acknowledged political and economic ideas, at least it will be accomplished with the help of the science, industry, and public opinion, with the application of all human ingenuity! No cosmic catastrophy, nothing but state, official, economic, and other causes. Nothing can be done to prevent it.”
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