Finnick?” I say, “Maybe some pants?” He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. “Why? Do you find this” — he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose — “distracting?” I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter…
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
All thinking men are atheists.
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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