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The more time you wait before telling somebody the truth about a secret you've been keeping, the longer your path out of the woods gets.

You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks and a trip to Sweden.

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.

Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means.

Robby Brees was such a gifted theologian.

I don't just let anyone find me, you know?

There's no prison worse than "I promise.

I realize that death and survival are both extremes of selfishness.

I think everyone's an arrow like that, too, aiming into their own centers.

My natural talent, I think, is in being fine - no matter what is actually going on inside me. I am fine. Nobody ever thinks otherwise.

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

But when I was quiet ... that made words too. The same words that make horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.

I thought about words - like words in books - and how just saying them made things real.

There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.

after midnight
Just words.
No more pictures. No charts or plays or poems.
Now it's just about the words.

I said a silent prayer. Actually, silent is probably the only type of prayer a guy should attempt when his head's in a toilet.

Henry believed that Marbury was a world out of balance. He needs to take a closer look at this one.

I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.

History does show that boys who dance are far more likely to pass along their genes than boys who don't.
Boys who dance are genetic volcanoes.

Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.

You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything.

I am going to build something big for you.

It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words.

The end of the world was one week old and it was getting out of hand.

People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control.

Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior

Stupid people should never read books.

I guess that's a sign of growing up: When your dad shuts up but you can hear him anyway.

I'm foolishly self-conscious.

We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule.
Boys are not allowed to love each other.
Then we painted a bison on the wall.

People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.

Robby called me Porcupine because of how I wore my hair. I didn't mind. Everyone else called me Austin.
Austin Szerba.
It is Polish.

I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through.

People naturally believe things they see. Nobody argues with the irrefutable postings on YouTube.

I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance floor.

It's no wonder I became a monster, too.

Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no.

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man's library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

Not a very pretty world, is it?"
"Which one?

A world between my fingers.

My brother Max nodded knowingly. Head injuries can answer a lot of questions that genetics are just too afraid to ask.

History provides a compelling argument that every scientist who tinkers around with unstoppable shit needs a reliable flamethrower.

All roads lead past shooting ranges, liquor stores, and gay bars. Wanderlust is part of the American Spirit.

We killed this big hairy thing and that big hairy thing. And that was our day. You know what I mean.

Sometimes books imitate life. And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books.

The television was on. Leslie Mitchell had been watching a program about how to cook lamb when Hungry Jack came in and started eating him.

History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.

I would die for Conner Kirk. Sometimes, I think I have died for him dozens of times, over and over again.

I think it is always appropriate to end a conversation about sperm with a sweaty handshake.

Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody.

But Jack doesn't cry.
Maybe.

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

And I'm pretty sure that everyone in the Pacific Northwest heard Ryan Dean West shout, YOUSTEPPEDONMYFUCKINGNUTSYOUSONOFABITCH!

I don't let just anyone fine me, you know?

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

Mind the gap, Jack

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.

I suppose the things that transform your life don't appear as you fancifully imagine they will.