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101 " Sometimes my brain hurts. Not a headache. A brainache "
― David Arnold , Mosquitoland
102 " There are some people whose sole purpose of existence is to show the rest of us how not to act "
103 " things like time hardly matter when dealing with a familiar spirit. "
104 " People just can’t help themselves when it comes to quotation marks. As if they’re completely paralyzed by this particular punctuation. I guess it’s really not that big of a deal, but it does seem to be a widespread brand of easily avoidable buffoonery. "
105 " Prone to unwieldy dreams, I’ve always found naps to be more exhausting than refreshing, and this one was no exception "
106 " Because even though honesty is hard, you really have to murder people with it if you expect to be a person of any value at all. "
107 " Você já teve a sensação de ter perdido algo importante, só para descobrir que a coisa nunca existiu para começo de conversa? "
108 " Quando nasceu, você chorou enquanto o mundo se deleitava. Viva a vida de modo que, quando morrer, o mundo chore enquanto você se deleita. "
109 " E, por mais simples que pareça, acho que entender quem você é - e quem não é - é a coisa mais importante de todas as Coisas Importantes. "
110 " I’ve been watching you,” says Poncho Man. If there are four creepier words in the English language, color me a monkey’s uncle. "
111 " The smile takes root in my stomach; it grows, weaving up through my chest and arms, shoulders and neck, before blooming in my face. I locate the only word between what I want to say and what I should say. “Thanks. "
112 " It’s just the two of us, cursed to face one another amid the ravenous elements of this bus station for all of forever. "
113 " Glass and concrete and stoneIt is just a house, not a home "
114 " ... anything to avoid the uncomfortable nearness of strangers "
115 " I have no moral objections to makeup, you understand, it’s just . . . I know me. And makeup isn’t me. This, in addition to my edgy, hard-nosed, take-no-prisoner attitude, and I think I could have made a pretty decent lesbian. Not to pigeonhole the demographic. "
116 " ... we stood there on the quiet sidewalk, stuck between mutiny and mediocrity "
117 " I remember like it was yesterday. I remember because it was the last time we held hands "
118 " ..you should write. It's better than succumbing to the madness of the world... And cheaper than pills "
119 " a thing's not a thing until you say it out loud "
120 " Help is help to anyone, Mary. Even if they don’t know they’re asking for it. "