Boy Nobody

If you want to know if someone is lying, turn down the volume. In real life that means stop listening to what they`re saying and watch their actions.
People will say anything. But the things they do - that`s the real tell.

It was the end of everything.
It was the beginning of everything else.

When you see something absurd, something that is beyond your power to comprehend, your mind interprets it as a joke. It is a natural human defense mechanism. I`ve used it to my advantage many times.

Life goes on.
Even after the worst of tragedies, it just keeps going.

"Chance can be your friend or your enemy," Mother used to say. "Make it a friend."

I don`t think he`s going to shoot me. He`s going to take me somewhere and ask questions. That`s a lot worse than being shot.
I think of my father. The last time I saw him I was twelve years old. He was taped to a chair and bleeding. Someone had asked him questions.
Questions are bad.

It`s good to be underestimated. It`s what`s known as a tactical advantage.

Everyone has intuition, but not everyone knows how to listen to it.

At the time, they`d been fighting for what seemed like months. I didn`t know what it was about, but it was one of those fights that was going on even when it wasn`t, even when everything was quiet.
It went on for so long it felt like our family was having a nervous breakdown.

I feel cold, I feel hungry, I feel the fabric of a new shirt rubbing against my skin, and I feel graven beneath my feet. But those are sensations, not feelings.
I had feelings once, too. I think I did. But that was a long time ago.
That was before.