Petting dogs was good for people; it was a scientific fact. Burt was a wise man, too, in his way. All animals are.
“Never before had I seen Homo sapiens so clearly—a species, at its most fundamental level, of storytellers. Creatures who overlay story on everything, but especially their own lives, and in so doing, can imbue a cold, random, sometime brutal existence, with fabricated meaning.”
― Upgrade
― Upgrade
“The truth is, if you don’t exist without someone else, you don’t exist at all.”
― The Trespasser
― The Trespasser
“I’ve done therapy. They don’t tell you the truth.” “But I like my therapist.” Jake scoffed. “I didn’t say you didn’t or shouldn’t like your therapist. I’m just saying, they’re liars. They don’t know they’re liars. They just are. It’s been coded into them, the lie.” “And what lie is that?” “That you’re broken, and that the way you are is on you to fix.” “I don’t get what you mean.” Jake leaned forward, passing the bottle back. “I mean this: You being fucked up? It’s normal.”
― The Book of Accidents
― The Book of Accidents
“Under what circumstances,” she’d mused to Martin the hairdresser one Sunday morning in bed, “could you envision Jesus Christ, a humble carpenter, hawking rosaries at the Vatican Gift Shop?”
― Squeeze Me
― Squeeze Me
“The nuns used to say that the devil comes disguised as an angel. That the worst things you’ll do, you’ll do for the best reasons. The most hateful things you’ll do, you’ll do for the ones you love most.”
― City on Fire
― City on Fire
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