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Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

As the liquid paper's fumes quell his brain activity, Jack finds himself staring at
her again and what he thinks is this: Wow.

Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like ... anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy.

For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about anything in her life.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

An act of evil is the death of wonder

I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.

It's pretty hard not to like her," he says. "Even when
you know you shouldn't.

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

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.

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when
really bad things were just about to happen.

The city is just too big and too full of people to be alone.

How's life?"
"That's the stupidest question I've ever heard.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

Maybe. Because he's got to try. Because she is too interesting, too beautiful not to even do anything.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

Slow as your own dubious grace.

I was just going to stand here and watch it happen. I wasn't going to say a fucking thing. Why? Because what did it matter? What did any of it matter?