WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.
I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.
She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons….
Every time you try to flirt with her, a puppy dies.
I’m done. I’m going to go to bed and read important books about theater.””It would would be easier if you just said porn,” Scarlett said.”No idea what you’re talking about. But knock first if you need me.
Fear can’t hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it’s a snake with no venom.
My final word: don’t follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!
Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!
Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along – returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.
Money is for doing things, my love. Don’t sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn’t hatch. I should know. I’ve made enough of it.
People can’t really sympathize with you properly when you’ve woken them up
You can’t curl up on the sofa and deny life forever. Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal-position or was I going to woman up?
People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.
I felt so alone on that train… a weird, unnatural kind of alone that bore into me. It was feeling just beyond fear and somewhere to the left of sadness.
It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.
It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness
I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwear.
This is England,” he explained. “Tell someone it’s a procedure, and they’ll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn’t care.
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows… but even taking that into account, Noah was pretty much perfect.
Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.
Sometimes people graduate but they don’t leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts…nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.
I don’t know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish “Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.
English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
Boo: “Go talk to her.”Callum: “About what?”Boo: “Anything.”Callum: “You want me to walk up to her and say, ‘Are you a ghost?'”Boo: “I do that.”Callum: “I love it when you get it wrong.
Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.
Many large corporations are actually modeled on hell,’ Brother Frank added. ‘The policies and organization are almost idential. Hell, of course, is much worse.
I don’t mind bigots. You’re allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children.
I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It’s like I’m shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.
This pool is a triumph of imagination. That’s how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can’t be done. There’s always a solution, even if it’s weird.
Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with…It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.
With that, I splashed some water on my face, fixed on a smile, and stepped out. I would find Jerome. I would make him explain to me what I was missing. We would laugh, then we would kiss with tongue, and all would be well.