"This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again."
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"This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again."
"I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered."
"It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings."
"I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not."
"It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window."
"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory."
"If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig."
"We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone."
"You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you."
"He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened."
"Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams."
"All representations of a thing are inherently abstract."
"it is the nature of stars to cross"
"I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is."
"Television is a passivity."
"There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward."
"I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with."
"Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die."
"I have guts, just not when it counts."
"I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met."