“Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“You know how when you see someone day in, day out, year after year, you don't really notice him getting taller or wider or older or whatever? It can be like that with the way people are on the inside too.”
― Knights of the Hill Country
― Knights of the Hill Country
“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
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