John L. Parker Jr. Quotes

It's a treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself . . . - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

If the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn, even Big Macs.

[ ... ] whose round face was a sad pink and white topographical map of adolescence.

No one promised you there would be universal justice.

Girl in school, she was hot as a two-dollar

These fundamental imbalances led them into concentric circles of ever decreasing size: a nautilus shell of their discontent.

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

You can remember it, he told himself, but you cannot experience it again like this. You have to be satisfied with the shadows.

Hey listen, I already have a complete list of silver linings. It's the goddamn cloud that's killin me.