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A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar.

My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.

A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.

I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

They tried to look punk but came off looking more like cats with mange. Just

You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

He said that when you are in love with someone, you want to follow them to the bathroom. He said love just makes you pathetic.

It was terrifying to have the responsibility of living in a world that was filled with so much wonder.

My conversation is probably something like the rain. On some days it pours, and then on other days there's just a clear sky- not a word in sight.

They don't know. It's not their fault. What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?

She was as secure as a sixty-year-old woman whose husband has never cheated on her.

He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

When she said sweet things in my ear, it would slide right down into my heart

I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath.

I didn't know how he managed to keep the weight of his secret when the burden of it was crushing me.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

Linus Lucas was fourteen years old, a number that made the spoons fall right out of our mouths.

We just thought of old age as some sort of clown routine.

The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me.

What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he exclaimed. "They sound so cute.

If there was one thing responsible for ruining lives, it was love.

Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.

You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.

The stars are always up in the sky ... then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

God knows who we became when we masturbated. It was like our desire was a spirit that possessed us and took over.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.

We had started thinking of ourselves not in terms of things that we had done, but in terms of what we were going to do.

Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

Fireflies danced around her like embers after someone has thrown a log into the stove.

The cat looked at its paws and frantically back at its body, as if it had just been transformed into a cat and couldn't accept it.

In Moscow there were a hundred different words for sadness, and one of them was joy.