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- So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)…
- My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
- Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't…
- The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I…
- I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf…
- I try to live life so that I can live with myself.
- What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
- Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people…
- Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You…
- One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he…
- Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth…
- I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then…
- Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that…
- Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.
- What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life,…
- But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try…
- The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier…
- It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of…
- In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.
- I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what…
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