“And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“The real question is not where do ideas come from but where do they go.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.”
― I'll Make A World: James Weldon Johnson's Story of The Creation
― I'll Make A World: James Weldon Johnson's Story of The Creation
“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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