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101 " The ants say: aren't we all bleeding a little? "
― A.S. King , Everybody Sees the Ants
102 " Maybe smiling at people would be my new revenge on the bullshit world. "
― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
103 " Don't judge. I'm not getting drunk. I'm coping. "
― A.S. King , Please Ignore Vera Dietz
104 " nothing about her pain is remotely original —and yet it still hurts "
― A.S. King , Still Life with Tornado
105 " I don't even use the stupid shampoo. "
106 " Charlie turned to me. "Want some?"I said, "Nah." What I meant was: Who are you? "
107 " Always? I know this sounds totally stupid, but sometimes I really can't see the point in living if I will always have to deal with this crap. I know I will have better times in my life, and I might even make myself into someone important, but if the whole time I have to deal with assholes, then what's the point? "
108 " I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute. "
109 " True love includes equal parts good and bad, but true loves sticks around and doesn't run off to Vegas with a podiatrist. "
110 " Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us. "
― A.S. King , Ask the Passengers
111 " But they keep saving me because they know I stand for something. They're just not sure what yet.-The Pagoda "
112 " But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu. "
113 " I never asked her how she was, because I didn't really think about how she was. I just thought about what she thought of me. "
114 " I can’t stop myself from reaching for the bottle that’s under my seat. I’ve gone all night without a sip, but it’s not about being addicted. It’s about being told what to do my whole life and doing it and then losing everything anyway. "
115 " Pretty much nobody on Earth takes me seriously. And yet, on the inside I know there is something wrong enough that someone should be taking it seriously. Maybe it starts with me. Maybe I have to take it seriously first. "
116 " And really–I would rather suck truck fumes than deal with this sort of shit forever. Mom says that Nader is a loser who will grow up to be a loser and that I'll understand when I'm forty. But I want to understand now. "
117 " Maybe most other people are messed up, too. It just wasn't aired on TV. "
― A.S. King , Reality Boy
118 " I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame. "
119 " Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogus and pornographic society actually was a good thing? I hoped so. I hoped there was an army of us out there, smiling about it that very moment. "
120 " If only you’d stop thinking there’s such a thing as perfect, then you’d feel a lot better about yourself. "