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All good things are possible if you try hard and stay stylish.

When you tell a story, you shape the truth.

I am not a people person.

Much as I usually dislike nice, positive people, I have to admit that Margaret isn't bad.

Sherman: You are the worst.
Rick: You taught me everything I know.

I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided the timing was wrong.

Enthusiasm isn't really my thing.

It's been a pretty tough day," he said. "No sense making it worse with a salad.

She's extremely un-suburban and charismatic and has this way of making you feel you're the only thing standing between her and death due to boredom.

If you start looking up, they start asking questions.

The pieces don't fit perfectly together and don't tell the whole story. Only the viewer can say if I succeeded.

Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear.

Wetting one's pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.

To discuss schoolwork voluntarily would violate the agreement I have with my parents that I will be the biggest disappointment who ever lived.

It's not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.

She was a woman in her thirties with sun-damaged skin and an opt-out approach to fashion.

I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable.

I had this vision of the two of us holding hands or getting into some light petting behind shower curtains or up in the fencing aisle or some shit.

Not being a big one for having friends, I had no idea what I was going to do with Aubrey, you know, to entertain him.

I think we learn the truth about ourselves by telling it to someone else.

If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.

I hate the way kids want all the attention. It's like I'm not even there when there's a baby in the room.

It's funny how you can be all alone and in danger and then a minute later feel totally safe, like you've never been lonely before.

My life is an issue in my life.

I knew he'd get left behind when the Rapture came due to his swearing and probably also for having long hair and tight pants.

I've always wanted to be self-sustaining and able to grow my own food. All I lack is land and skill.

It seemed a little risky, enjoying something so ... fun, but I couldn't help it.

I don't do effortless myself, but I like it in other people.

Got anything to eat?" I asked.

"You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother.

I may never recover. It was like an out-of-body experience. I'm an alien trying on human rituals.

When Tyler emerged from Pod 3, he looked like he always does
distracted and handsome with a double helping of hot-artist sauce (73).

It's important to give people the benefit of the doubt even if they don't deserve it.

This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?

If you rock the boat in a fragile family, the concern is that everyone will drown. Hmmm,

It was beginning to occur to me that I was a little too in love with stereotypes and preconceptions.

Sylvia, on the other hand, looks like she eats stress as an amuse-bouche and turns problems into cocktails.

If you are alive and conscious, you are probably codependent.

Bobby just stared at me. There was already crumbs in his mustache and it was barely seven in the morning.

I will pretend I do not have those feelings and eventually they will die from neglect.

Can you dance?
Of course, I said, even though I can't really. I think enthusiasm counts for a lot in dancing and in life.

I'm already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone.

Our families are often the thing that keep us stuck,

It must be amazing to end each day consumed with something other than disappointment at yourself and the world.

I don't care about this stuff. I'm not even sure I'm a girl. I'm an eye in the sky. I am detached. I'm an idiot.

There is nothing to be gained by trying to change reality. I know this. Completely. And yet. And. Yet.

She is, like anyone worth knowing, many things at once.

Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.