- "So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
- "The sky was overcast and the air felt like a warm bath...I just listened to the music and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough."
- "Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies... More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain."
- "And just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. They are all my favorites. All of them."
- "Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend."
- " 'Charlie, I would like you to drive the rest of the way to my mother's house.' Everyone in the car knew that this was probably the worst idea my dad ever had in his whole life."
- "It's like my very first memory, which I guess is the first time I was aware that I was alive...Anyway, the baby calf was standing right underneath its mother, just kind of walking around, and the mother cow took a 'dump' on the baby calf's head. I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen in the whole world, and I laughed about it for three hours."
- "My dad kept giving me 'love pats.' Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are administered on the knee, shoulder, and arm."
- "They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night. That's when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn't mind a bit."
- "I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them."
- "I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people."
- "I had about eight cups in a row and was ready to drive in about twenty minutes. The problem was, by the time I got home, I was so awake from the coffee, I couldn't fall asleep. By the time I got to school, I felt like dying."
- "But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."
jun 6 2011 ∞
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