“I do not think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“I said I heard them, it’s like a, like a chittering I guess. You hear it, you don’t hear it really but you just get the sound in the middle of your head, like an itch. It’s not so much like a swarm of bees but more like a crowd, a crowd at a concert because you can pick out words and, I say it out loud and it sounds insane, but you can hear them talking to each other, coordinating. And more than that, you can hear their hate.”
― John Dies at the End
― John Dies at the End
“You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.”
― John Dies at the End
― John Dies at the End
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“He had a birthmark on the third toe of his left foot. He wasn’t able to urinate if someone could hear him. He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious—so absolutely delicious, in fact, that he questioned whether they were, indeed, made from cucumbers, which were only good enough.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
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