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Ask me if I give a shit.

How can you read and talk at the same time? I asked.Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.

We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible because we are.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts.""That's not any better!

Most loves don't last. But some do.

The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

‎"I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

Wait, wait. I don't get it.''That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, "I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard.

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

I'm the motherfucking fox, no one can catch the fox." -Takumi

We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.