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It was just three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.

I was cought in a love triangle with one dead side.

That is the fear. I have lost something importatnt and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out if glasses and he would just have to do without.

She said it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

Она конечно симпатичная, но нельзя западать на девчонку, которая относится к тебе как к десятилетнему. Мама у меня уже есть.

Память тоже не вечна. И тогда, получается, от тебе не остается ничего, ни призрака, ни даже его тени.

• Мир неравен для людей.

What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

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И еще я смутно припоминаю, как Лара улыбается, стоя в дверях, - заманчивая неопределенность девичьей улыбки, которая вроде как обещает дать тебе отчет на твой вопрос, но все же не дает. На тот самый вопрос, которым мы все задаемся с тех времен, как девчонки перестали казаться нам ужасными созданиями, вопрос настолько простой, что он не может быть сложным: я ей нравлюсь или нравлюсь?

Но сегодня пятница, Толстячок, а моя девка - стерва.

Я лиса - лису никто не поймает.

I was a Christian, I guess. I'd been to church like four times, which is more frequently than I d been to a mosque or sinagogue.

I hated sports. I hated sports and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who played or watched them.

You gotta stop stealing other people problems and get some of your own

I wasn't hot shit there, Chip. I was regular shit