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“It's not safe to know how to swear but not how to deal with people," Dovie said. "It's like walking around with your mouth loaded and the safety off.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“He exhaled in disgust. “High school is boredom punctuated by humiliation.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“He thought about explaining math’s beauty to her, the elegance of an equation, the simplicity within the complexity. The thrill of touching truth and knowing it as ancient and unassailable, as permanent and profound.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“I was thinking," Yuri said, licking blood from the corner of his mouth, "that since I bothered to save the world, people might shut up during movies.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“Because they start with us, reach up to touch God, and still come back down to be with us. The treasure isn't at the end of the rainbow; it's that the rainbow cared enough to come back.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“Matt Damon is running in suit. Nobody runs in suit like Matt Damon.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“Good lord, you’re bleeding!” the woman called. “Dovie, sit him down before he dies.” Dovie pulled a chair out from the kitchen table, situated between the kitchen and living room. She raised an eyebrow at him and her glittered shadow caught the light. He slipped out of his shoes, though she’d left hers on, and walked across the living room, leaving depressions in the green carpet. The woman disappeared down a hall and came back with a first aid kit and a wet washcloth. “These the only boo-boos?” He looked at her, uncomprehending. “Yuri’s Russian,” Dovie said, then explained, “she wants to know where you’re hurt.” “Oh. I have multiple superficial abrasions and small laceration to forehead and left lateral mouth, with localized swelling. So, compromised skin integrity and risk for infection, but no skeletal issues.” “I see,” Mrs. Collum said, smiling.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“I feel like I was the whole color wheel as a kid. And growing up means losing some of that.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“I want to keep all of me, and I don't think you get to do that. I think becoming an adult means leaving part of you behind.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“You're just jealous because I have conquered world of literature, as well as science.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“The smart people aren't always good," Reg said heavily, "so the good people have to be smart.”
― What Goes Up
― What Goes Up
“It was more important to do good work than to get honor for it. I learned that.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“It wasn't ego. It was just that he knew he was right.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“I'm going to have to go out on my own someday pretty soon. And the world is already telling me to be less.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“I dream in color and I remember in color and I hope in color.'
'What color is hope?'
'I hope in all the colors. That's what makes it hope.”
― Learning to Swear in America
'What color is hope?'
'I hope in all the colors. That's what makes it hope.”
― Learning to Swear in America
“You know, you don’t have to try so hard to be different. You are different.” “Um, thank you?”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“Hey, Kyle. You know what I can hit?"
"What?"
"Asteroid traveling at seventy-one kilometers per second. And if I can't, you're dead.”
― Learning to Swear in America
"What?"
"Asteroid traveling at seventy-one kilometers per second. And if I can't, you're dead.”
― Learning to Swear in America
“Matt Damon is running in suit. Nobody runs in suit like Matt Damon. I wanted to see this.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“He thought about explaining math's beauty to her, the elegance of an equation, the simplicity within the complexity. The thrill of touching truth and knowing it as ancient and unassailable, as permanent and profound. But he was a math guy - he didn't have the words to do it - not in English. Probably not in Russian either.”
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“Life’s constant wasn’t the speed of light, or Planck’s constant. It was death.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.”
― What Goes Up
― What Goes Up
“Your base needs to be wider. See how it leans?” Yuri pointed. “It’s already maybe eight degrees off vertical.” Yuri got on the floor beside him and snapped two long blocks onto the bottom of the tower. “See? This will increase your structural integrity.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“It’s impossible in a wheelchair.” “Oh. Lennon. Did he study here?” Of course he did. “Yeah. There’s wheelchair access behind the building. So you can get in, but you can’t feel good doing it.” The steps down funneled”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“Damn, shit, hell, yeah.”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
“Do you think there will be a Second Coming?” Dovie said. Yuri licked the back of his spoon. “Maybe there already was. What if he came again in 1943? They’d have put him in Dachau. Maybe they threw him in cattle car, made him wear striped pajamas, and finally gassed him in shower.” They stared at him. Yuri shrugged. “What? It’s kind of thing that would happen to him.” “That’s the most”
― Learning to Swear in America
― Learning to Swear in America
