‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
“If Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”
― Britt-Marie var här
― Britt-Marie var här
“On those we love:
"Every year that passed, it seemed a little more of her had slipped away; and I began to fear that one day I would come to forget her altogether. But the truth is: No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
"Every year that passed, it seemed a little more of her had slipped away; and I began to fear that one day I would come to forget her altogether. But the truth is: No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“People eat the shit you shovel them.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between “guilty” and “innocent.” Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn’t I be “neither” or “both”?
After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, “Your Honor, I plead human.”
― The Sellout
After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, “Your Honor, I plead human.”
― The Sellout
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