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41 " it’s a shameful feeling to admit to another human being that you’ve been acting like a child. So here’s a bit of advice for you: While you are a child, live it up. You won’t get to act like that forever without making a fool out of yourself. "
― Craig Lancaster , Edward Unspooled (Edward #3)
42 " rollicking "
― Craig Lancaster , The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
43 " Did you know that there are NFL team colors available in paint? I am intrigued by this. I like the Dallas Cowboys, but I don’t think that I would want their colors on the garage. "
― Craig Lancaster , 600 Hours of Edward (Edward, #1)
44 " The one thing Hugo did better than almost anyone else, the one constant for much of his life, was being taken away in a most ignominious way. "
45 " she’s aggressive and grabs my wiener, though, I may have to come up with another plan. "
46 " I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys’ best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous. "
47 " I offer to shake hands with Kyle, but he insists on a high five, something I’ve never done. I’ve seen the Dallas Cowboys do it, and it looks like great fun. "
48 " starts anew, and time slows down again. It’s only after your twenties go by in a day and when things you think happened last year really lie five years back that you realize that time doesn’t slow at all. Indeed, it only gains speed. And then you curse yourself for ever wishing it away. "
― Craig Lancaster , The Summer Son
49 " Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency. "
― Craig Lancaster , This Is What I Want
50 " You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That’s what matters. "
51 " the only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it. "
52 " this much, too: never again will we keep our hearts waiting. "
53 " I cleared the air again. “Oh, I’m plenty stupid. But not on this. And I’m not cruel. Don’t let him fight again. Hell, you shouldn’t have let him fight tonight. I’m all for that. But it’s not going to kill you to let him go with the knowledge that nobody ever knocked him out cold. Besides, it isn’t me you have to convince anyway.” Squeaky ran the gym, ran the Tuesday night fights, but his daddy, Frank, was the boss. He knew this sure as I did. "
54 " Crying comes from many sources and has many causes: anger, frustration, sadness, lack of sleep. I think I am suffering from all four, and I think that is why I have been crying. "
55 " Dr. Buckley says that all people have things they are good at and not so good at and that if I like someone, I should appreciate his or her good points and forgive the bad. This makes sense to me. Dr. Buckley is a very logical woman. "
56 " Love is bullshit and weird and stupid, but shit, man, if you have love, everybody should leave you alone and let you keep it for as long as you can. "
― Craig Lancaster , Edward Adrift (Edward, #2)
57 " Why was life stacked in such a way that she’d had to make binding decisions—where to live, whom to marry, whether to subjugate her own aspirations to those of Sam—before she had any way of knowing what she wanted? It seemed a cruel stroke that a willingness to wrestle with those questions came only after youth had been expended. "