Эмпайр Фоллз

Это ужасно, когда хорошая женщина в тебе разочаровывается.

But of course everything had conspired to spoil her entrance, which only went to prove what Janine already knew: that no matter how well you planned something, God always planned better. If He was feeling stingy that day and didn't want you to have some little thing you had your heart set on, then you weren't going to get it and that was all there was to it.

The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.

He’d meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He’d also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again.

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Она улыбнулась, и видно было, как борются в ней надежда и опыт, бьются на кулаках, и им вовек не одолеть друг друга

– В школе тебе небось говорят, что у нас свободная страна.

Джимми не стал отрицать, что в его присутствии не раз высказывалось подобное суждение.

– Ага, так вот не верь им. У них все кругом схвачено, они все просчитали. На ком ты женишься. Где вы с ней будете жить, сколько будете платить за жилье. Сколько ты будешь зарабатывать. Кто погибнет в их войнах. Все что ни на есть. Думаешь, у тебя есть право свое слово вставить? Пораскинь мозгами.

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about - acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.