“I don’t think I’m special. I want you to know that,” Odile says sharply. “I don’t think I’m better than everybody else.” — Joe Meno Think Better Copy Share Image
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well. — Joe Meno Life Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.” — joe meno Answers Copy Share Image
“Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.” — Joe Meno Heaven Copy Share Image
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. — Joe Meno Cities Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths. — Joe Meno Death Copy Share Image
We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything. — Joe Meno Acting Copy Share Image
“It’s pretty hard not to like her,” he says. “Even when you know you shouldn’t.” — Joe Meno Hard Copy Share Image
“wondered about what he said and then thought hard. I could never be a dick, not to Gretchen anyway, so I guess… — Joe Meno Doomed Copy Share Image
“I figured Alan wasn’t really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid,… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“As a boy, all I ever wanted was this: a life dedicated to art; every idea, every breath an artistic gesture. And… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
“Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too… — Joe Meno Death Copy Share Image
“Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to… — Joe Meno Kindlehighlight Copy Share Image
“Jack: Well, I've never been to New York, but I hear it's for assholes. Odile: It's not. Jack: Well, that's what I… — Joe Meno Assholes Copy Share Image
Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If… — Joe Meno Confused Copy Share Image
“And he says, “I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with me. And I think I realized that I’m average, that there’s… — Joe Meno People Think Copy Share Image
“You scan the cheering bleachers for the strange boy’s face: handsome, reserved, with the eye patch, a little dramatic, a little scary.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people… — Joe Meno After school Copy Share Image
Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in… — Joe Meno Country Copy Share Image
The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes.… — Joe Meno Boys Copy Share Image
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made… — Joe Meno Abandoned Copy Share Image
“What Mr. Albee most desires is for the Model UN, the entire group of them, all eleven, even the scoundrel Quinn, to… — Joe Meno Entire Group Copy Share Image
“We’re adults,” he says quickly. “I’m only here to work. I won’t bother you or anything.” “Fine,” she says. “Great.” “Great,” he… — Joe Meno Friend Copy Share Image
“Kristin nods, marching ahead of Clark, who gazes as the impossible smallness of Kristin’s ankles and feet. Years later, while imprisoned for… — Joe Meno Smallness Kristin Copy Share Image
“In our town—our town of shadows, our town of mystery—it seems our buildings have, without reason, begun to disappear completely. Still full… — Joe Meno Coming home Copy Share Image
“-Are you ready to return to the outside world, Billy? -No, definitely not, sir. -Well, you can't stay here forever now, can… — Joe Meno Outside world Copy Share Image
“The more you like a girl, the less she likes you. It’s like fucking scientific.” “What about you and Kim?” “That’s what… — Joe Meno Time Copy Share Image
Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this. — Joe Meno Decent Copy Share Image
“For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about… — Joe Meno Heart Copy Share Image
I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had… — Joe Meno Becoming Copy Share Image
Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel… — Joe Meno Feels Copy Share Image
“What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? And so he stares for an hour or so at all her… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
“Just because you have blue hair and fucked-up clothes doesn’t mean you’re better than everyone else. Because you know what? You’re just… — Joe Meno Blue hair Copy Share Image
“He wants to say: First of all, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Active Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they… — Joe Meno America Copy Share Image
In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It… — Joe Meno Believe Copy Share Image
