Цитаты из книги NOS4A2

Для нее вращения колес явилось колдовством, эдаким полетом на метле сквозь тьму Хэллоуина, когда в тысяче футов над землей без видимых усилий рассекаешь бескрайнее пространство.

“In that gesture Vic understood everything. Whatever the children had become, whatever he had done to them, he had done to make them safe, to keep them from being run down by the world. He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed”

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Let me tell you something. The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

His official stance was that he had grown out of SpongeBob, but with his mother gone he could dispense with the official stance and do what he liked.

It wasn’t that he wanted to stay indoors. He wanted to stay inside his phone. It was his bridge away from a world where Mom was a crazy alcoholic and Dad was a three-hundred-pound car mechanic who had dropped out of high school and who wore an Iron Man costume to comic-book conventions.

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone. It came and took you away from your loved ones, and you never got to go back.

Still a virgin in his early twenties: Who said there was no wonder left in the world?

- Why am I not good at anything?

• You’re a good dad.
• It ain’t rocket science.

The lies were easy to tell because they never felt like lies at all.

The fires of hell are not hot enough for a man—or woman!—who would hurt his children.

Vic’s father was badass. Other dads built things. Hers blew shit up and rode away on a Harley, smoking the cigarette he used to light the fuse. Top that.

Когда она видела его в прошлый раз, в волосах у него появилось много серебра, которого год назад не было. Она слышала, что мужчины заводят молоденьких любовниц, чтобы самим оставаться молодыми. Это не действовало.

Перед ними поднимались горы, чудовищная стена из черного камня на краю мира. Пики были так высоки, что казалось, будто сама луна застряла среди них.

Уэйн никогда не видел гор, подобных этим.. Они были огромной Грядой каменных зубов, кривой ряд клыков, достаточно острых и крупных, чтобы поглотить небо.

В некотором смысле, сын Вик, Брюс, был зачат именно в тот миг, хотя она не будет беременна им на протяжении еще двух лет.

Бинг услышал трепетное звучание скрипки, а затем пение мужчины, голос у которого был таким же гладким и пышным, как глазурь ванильного торта.