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“I went home early to study my apartment before the class. I wanted to look at everything through her eyes. I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
― No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva."
"Erika, I'm a dried up husk."
"Don't say that, Mary.”
― Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
"Erika, I'm a dried up husk."
"Don't say that, Mary.”
― Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
“Have you seen a person recently so delicious-looking that, were you and this person to be scrambling for ice-cream change with your arms in the sofa and your faces laid on the cushions looking at each other as you felt for coins and the ice-cream truck dinged on by and your hands in there felt only the lint of the sofa scrofula and your faces were fairly close across a distance of that knobby nylon terrain, you might feel compelled to slide you face toward this delicious-looking person’s and kiss him or her - have you seen anyone like this recently?”
― The Interrogative Mood
― The Interrogative Mood
“... there is no order in the world around us... we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof. It can be done.”
― Breakfast of Champions
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof. It can be done.”
― Breakfast of Champions
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