“We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we let them help us because inside of humans is this thing, this unnamed need to feel as if we… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“But in the parent department, he had won the lottery. So, he'd always known that when he finally told them, they'd make him feel… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution. — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder." "Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.” — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“It was a great laugh - that kind where you can actually hear the 'ha-ha-ha's' if you listen closely enough.” — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“We have this way of putting certain ideas out of our minds...we do that. Humans, I mean. We have to bury things, hopes and… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“Life, he says, doesn’t have to be so bad all the time. We don’t have to be anxious about everything. We can just be.… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“Okay, so first we get you a new computer and then a Facebook page. Priorities, you know," he said, typing in Kyle's password. "What would I do without you--" "Found her," he interrupted. "She's at Carrie's OK Bar. It's downtown." "What the hell is Carrie's OK Bar?" "It's a karaoke bar. Travis, come on." "Wait, how do you know she's… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share
“I actually didn't mind too much that Gabriel had spent the past four nights in my room. He was relatively quiet, didn't go through my things, and liked to listen to my weird book ideas late at night. When I told him that I wanted to write a book about zombies taking over our town, he suggested that I make… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share
“He accepted him for what he was. And that Data concluded, was true friendship.” — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“People didn't like having to come up with something smart or helpful or sensitive to say, and they weren't intelligent enough to realize that all we wanted, all I wanted, was to be treated the same as I had been three months before. I wanted to be ignored because of my eccentricities, not because of my brother. And I wanted… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share
Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could,… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“When one of us is dying, they say a part of all of us is. I think that's why it hurts. We go our… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
