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81 " Time-travelers lie a lot. "
― Stephen King , 11/22/63
82 " There were no violins or warning bells when I pulled the janitor’s theme off the top of the stack and set it before me, no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime. "
83 " She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband. "
84 " by 11:00 A.M. I needed coffee desperately. A gallon or so seemed about right. "
85 " ...the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research. "
86 " Kennedy entered, waving to the standing audience, an elderly gentleman in an Alpine hat and lederhosen struck up “Hail to the Chief ” on an accordion bigger than he was. The president did a double take, then lifted both hands in an amiable holy shit gesture. For the first time I saw him as I had come to see Oswald—as an actual man. In the double take and the gesture that followed it, I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity. "
87 " You need to get in the Baptist way of churching, son. Ours welcomes newcomers. You can take this place, and maybe some Sunday you can come with me n my wife.''Maybe so,' I agreed, reminding myself to be in a coma that Sunday. Possibly dead. "
88 " ... if you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know. "
89 " Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor, "
90 " Hearts don’t really break. If only they could. "
91 " Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end . . . and knowing there’s so much worth saving. "
92 " Mostly I was just plain freaked. Not mentally tottering, I think a human mind that's moderately well-adjusted can absorb a lot of strangeness before it actually totters, but freaked, yes. "
93 " Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief... but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? Yes, I think so. Because when the time is gone, you can never get it back. "
94 " Will I like it Jake? In your place?""I hope so, hon.""Is it very different?"I smiled. "People pay more for gasoline and have more buttons to push. Otherwise, it's about the same. "
95 " The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by the post, a racial mixture so balanced it looked like a casting call for Law and Order SVU. "
96 " She takes my hand like a woman in a dream. She is in a dream, and so am I. Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief . . . but brevity makes sweetness, doesn’t it? "
97 " By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research. "
98 " But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. "
99 " Lisbon Taxi,' a woman said, 'where the mileage is always smileage. How may we help you today? "
100 " I have never been what you’d call a crying man. "