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1 " They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries. "
― Paul Zindel , The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)
2 " It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet. "
3 " In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . . "
― Paul Zindel
4 " Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less. "
5 " She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn’t bother me underneath? "
6 " There was no one else to blame anymore. No Bores or Old Ladies or Nortons, or Assassins waiting at the bridge. And there was no place to hide-no place across any river for a boatman to take us. Our life would be what we made of it-nothing more, nothing less.Baboons.Baboons. They build their own cages, we could almost hear the Pigman whisper, as he took his children with him. "
7 " I really hate it when a teacher has to show that she isn't behind the times by using some expression which sounds so up-to-date you know for sure she's behind the times. "
8 " Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball. "
9 " Watch the little things in life, the ones you have control over. Keep your eyes glued to the peas and every speck of dust on the floor. "
10 " For Sale: Complete set of encylopedias. Never used. Wife knows everything. "
11 " And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is. "
― Paul Zindel , The Pigman's Legacy (The Pigman, #2)
12 " When are you getting married?''After graduation, stupid. "
― Paul Zindel , My Darling, My Hamburger
13 " If you leave me, I'll want to die. Love, Elizabeth Carstensen. "
14 " There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge. "
15 " I find everything demoralizing,' Dennis said. "
16 " The mustard lined his lips. At one point a strand of sauerkraut was smeared against his chin. "
17 " The speeches! They were filled with borrowed things--borrowed over and over again until the words were nothing more than a series of clichés. "
18 " Dennis had just kissed her once, and she was screaming for a hamburger. "
19 " Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell? "
20 " This sex thing. We never used to be hung up like this. Nature doesn't give little kids problems except when there's some kind of an accident--like that eight-year-old South American girl that had a baby. But that's practically a mutation, right? "
