Ali

“Even as a grown-up, I love pretending to be a grown-up.”
― John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

“At first she was so inexpressive and indifferent that I wanted to know more about her. I envied that blankness - it was the opposite of helplessness or damage or craving or suffering or shame. But she was never really happy and already, in a matter of days, she had reached a stage in our relationship where she no longer really cared about me or any thoughts or ideas I might have had.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“The future was always there; you couldn't get away from a thing like that. Nobody could. But it was a way of seeing it that terrified him, a glimpse he only got when he wasn't expecting it, like turning a corner on the right street and having the city line itself up perfectly, all the way to the river. It wasn't like the river went anywhere, George told me. It never got up and walked off or dried up when you weren't looking. It was just that most days you didn't worry about it. But then you'd see it, and you'd worry; and this future, too, was something that tempted you, that asked you to cast yourself into it and drown. And then you'd turn, George said, and when you looked back it'd be gone. You'd have escaped once more.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color

“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front