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1 " My brother said something, but I’d been distracted by a nice flower in someone’s back yard.Wanted to pick it for my girlfriend.Then I realized she might be sad I killed it.Seemed like something she’d get sad about.Maybe not.I could just say, “Here, I killed this for you.”As in, “Of course I would kill something for you.”As in, “Everything is potentially your gift. "
― Sam Pink , Rontel
2 " And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult. But never became one. "
3 " You still worked, thinking I didn’t.But I do still work.I still work and I want you to know that. "
4 " The terrible divide between trying and being ready to try. "
5 " How the mouth of the cat carcass would shake terribly at me as the tire spun. And how, yeah, it’d be fucking awesome if a magic key came out of the cat’s shaking mouth—a magical key that took me on a magical journey and ended up, somehow, with me being born as a baby eagle but like, with the mind I have now (why not). "
6 " He just danced, eating chips. Then he started bouncing up and down, bending at the knees. Classic baby style. I felt like turning to the girl next to me and saying, “Ah, classic baby style. "
7 " I felt at peace with the universe.No, I didn't feel that. "