“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“I think about how quickly things have changed for me. But that’s the personality of change, isn’t it? When it’s slow, it’s called growth; when it’s fast, it’s change. And God, how things change: some things, nothings, anythings, everything… all the things change.”
― Mosquitoland
― Mosquitoland
“Sometimes the best lie was just the truth left to ripen on the branch too long.”
― The Long and Faraway Gone
― The Long and Faraway Gone
“Time seemed, as it always does in adulthood after a particular stretch has concluded, no matter how ponderous or unpleasant the stretch was to endure, to have passed quickly indeed.”
― Eligible
― Eligible
“My dad and I once had a fight because I refused to put ketchup on my hot dogs," I said.
"That's possibly the most American sentence I've ever heard.”
― The Royal We
"That's possibly the most American sentence I've ever heard.”
― The Royal We
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