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“Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.”
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“If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.”
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“I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.”
― The Mistress's Daughter
― The Mistress's Daughter
“Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.”
― This Book Will Save Your Life
― This Book Will Save Your Life
“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
― The End of Alice
― The End of Alice
“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”
― The Safety of Objects
― The Safety of Objects
“I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?”
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“There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we ‘friend’ each other when we don’t know who we are really talking to – we fuck strangers. We mistake almost anything for a relationship, a community of sorts, and yet, when we are with our families, in our communities, we are clueless, we short-circuit and immediately dive back into the digitized version – it is easier, because we can be both our truer selves and our fantasy selves all at once, with each carrying equal weight.”
― May We Be Forgiven
― May We Be Forgiven
“We’re all good when we want to be, otherwise we’re fucking animals. There’s no VIP room in reality, and there is no reality in this city. You can’t Google the answers. People talke about being on the ride of your life—THIS IS YOUR LIFE. Whatever you need to know, you already know. Imagine what it is to be in another country, another landscape—heat, insects, fear. Imagine watching someone right in front of you trip on a wire, step on a mine, blow their body to shreds, in mid-sentences, mid-cigarette. Imagine yourself splattered with human flesh. Imagine talking to that boy for the five minutes when he is profoundly conscious of the fact that he is not goingt to make it home. Imagine the difference between that and being in upstate New York, drinking beer, trying to get laid, and spending the summer as lifeguard at Lake George. Imagine zipping your friends into body bags. Tell me why anyone ever thought this was a good idea. How could anyone not be angry? You’d have to be insane.” --Nic Thompson”
― This Book Will Save Your Life
― This Book Will Save Your Life
“I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.”
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“I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”
― May We Be Forgiven
― May We Be Forgiven
“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”
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“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”
― May We Be Forgiven
― May We Be Forgiven
“I’m trying to find some piece of myself that is truly me, a part that I would be willing to wear like a jewel around my neck.”
― The Safety of Objects
― The Safety of Objects
“Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering.”
― This Book Will Save Your Life
― This Book Will Save Your Life
“She lies on the stripped bed, looking up at the pinhole in the roof. The sky is blue. Clouds pass over. Sky, air, clouds, the sun and moon; it's fine. It's the same as it ever was. She stares at the small spot of blue. She sleeps. She dreams. She wakes up feeling a little more and a little less like herself.”
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“What does ‘stuck’ mean?” “It means I should make some big decision, I should do some enormous thing. And I can’t do anything. I can’t stand my life, and I can’t change it.” “Maybe it’s not an enormous thing,” he says. “Maybe you have to do one small thing and then another small thing.”
― Music for Torching: A Darkly Comic Literary Satire of Suburban Family Dysfunction in America
― Music for Torching: A Darkly Comic Literary Satire of Suburban Family Dysfunction in America
“Tell me about your day, your routine, and what you did at the drugstore when the dumb little girl charged you five cents instead of five dollars. Did you speak up? Are you all so lily-white? The harder it gets to be safe and secure, to trust, to find love and understanding—the more you feel entitled, allowed, even encouraged, to cheat, to lie, to steal, and then later, even to kill. That you're just beginning to feel it now only means you have been lucky for too long.”
― The End of Alice
― The End of Alice
“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are—start there.”
― Music for Torching: A Darkly Comic Literary Satire of Suburban Family Dysfunction in America
― Music for Torching: A Darkly Comic Literary Satire of Suburban Family Dysfunction in America
“There is a sky and trees, a high wire fence, a long road, and at the end of it you are there, waiting for me. So glad to see you, I say, misses you so much, thought about you ever day.”
― The End of Alice
― The End of Alice
“My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.”
― May We Be Forgiven
― May We Be Forgiven
“Can I ask you, what is your relationship to God?”
“Limited,” I say. “Limited with the exception of spontaneous prayer in times of distress.”
― May We Be Forgiven
“Limited,” I say. “Limited with the exception of spontaneous prayer in times of distress.”
― May We Be Forgiven
“Driving a Bentley to Target- only in LA does this make sense.”
― This Book Will Save Your Life
― This Book Will Save Your Life
“Silly bug, fly on the wall, our first fight and how quickly we are over it. Of course I don't hate you, dearest, beloved, most cherished, I owe you everything.”
― The End of Alice
― The End of Alice
“He lay there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone's life. He'd so thoroughly removed himself from the world of dependencies and obligations, he wasn't sure he still existed.”
― This Book Will Save Your Life
― This Book Will Save Your Life
“I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in.”
― This Book Will Save Your Life
― This Book Will Save Your Life
“Alice, I hand you her name gently, suggesting that if you hold it, carefully as I do, pressed close to the heart, you might at the end of this understand how confusing the beating of two such similar hearts can be and how one finally had to stop.”
― The End of Alice
― The End of Alice
“Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?”
― May We Be Forgiven
― May We Be Forgiven
“I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.”
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“He looked at Richard and the donut with great intensity, as if this were the donut that would fix Richard, as if there were certain donuts that were better for certain ailments, as if a donut could have curative powers.”
― This Book Will Save Your Life: A Novel
― This Book Will Save Your Life: A Novel






