My Friends

But there's no harder person on the planet than a romantic with a broken heart.

Being human is to grieve, constantly

Because sometimes Louisa is a genius, but sometimes she isn’t a genius, and the problem is that the genius and the non-genius share a brain.

Луиза предлагает ему одну из банок кока-колы: настоящие друзья предлагают тебе половину того, что купили на твои деньги.

Единственное плохое в Рыбке было то, что по утрам она была невыносима. Она всегда просыпалась счастливой- а это полное непонимание сути утра.

Children know hardly anything about their parents, even if they live with them their whole lives. Because all we know about them is as moms and dads, nothing about who they were before that. We never saw them young, when they still fantasized about all the things that could happen, instead of regretting all the things that never did.

"Holding hand?" Louisa repeats.

"Everyone say: Don't go to bed angry! But you know, if you hold hand, very hard to be angry for long, you know? So you hold hand, when you go for walk, when you watch TV. You hold hand, so you know: You and me. Always."

"That sounds simple," Louisa smiles.

"Other thing, important! In restaurant, he orders food I like, always. Halfway through meal, we swap plates. You understand? You must live with each other, not only alongside each other."