Цитаты из книги Мои друзья

He’s thought so many times as an adult that it’s a lie that people are scared of being alone, because what we fear is being abandoned. You can choose to be alone, but no one chooses to be left.

Adults often think that self-confidence is something a child learns, but little kids are by their nature always invincible, it’s self-doubt that needs to be taught.

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.

His brain is like poop. Everything sticks!

It is an act of violence when an adult yells at a child, all adults know that deep down, because all adults were once little. Yet we still do it. Time after time, we fail at being human beings.

The birds are like tourists. They screech and make a mess, but you're not allowed to shoot them...

"Are you scared of dogs?" "No. I just prefer being where dogs aren't."

When you grow up and see how naturally a teenager moves, you realize the logic of Stone Age people dying when they were twenty-seven, because from then on, the body does everything it can do to die.

We're a bunch of lonely apes on a rock in the universe, our breath consists of eighty percent nitrogen, twenty percent oxygen, and one hundred percent anxiety. The only thing we can take for granted is that everyone we have ever met and everyone we have ever known and everyone we have ever loved will die.

«Он рисует так, как поют птицы».

- Теперь ты знаешь, счастливо сказал Джоар.

- Знаю что? - удивился художник.

Джоар наклонился так близко к стене, что краска попала ему на ресницы.

- Теперь ты знаешь, что не хочешь умирать.

- Маленькая злюка, - ворчит Тед.

- Унылый старик, - ухмыляется она.

- Так... у Рыбы была рыба? - Да. - А как звали рыбу? - Бастер. - Хорошее имя для рыбы, нехотя признает Тед. - Правда? Это я его придумала! - торжествующе улыбается она.

Time is a strange concept once you've been abandoned. If you're five years old when your parent leaves you, the leaving didn't happen on one particular day, it happens every day. It never stops.

Все, кого он встречал, говорили, что он должен быть так благодарен, потому что его жизнь - мечта любого художника, а он чувствовал стыд, словно взял не то пальто в гардеробе и носил чужую мечту. Потому что он мечтал только о том, чтобы его не узнавали на улице, и не быть взрослым, и о том, чтобы лежать на пирсе с лучшими друзьями, пить подогретую солнцем газировку и читать комиксы о супергероях. О том, чтобы быть никем рядом с самыми дорогими ему «никем».

Ему почти сорок лет, он прожил долгую жизнь, на удивление долгую, и всякий, кто говорит иначе, лжец. Он видел мир, влюблялся на белых пляжах, танцевал под громкую музыку теплыми ночами и тратил впустую неторопливые утра под мягкими простынями. Он рисовал, смеялся и пел. Все то, о чем он не смел и мечтать в четырнадцать лет, с порезами на запястьях и таблетками в рюкзаке. Он жил, боже мой, как он жил.

Isn't it like, totally unbelievable that we even exist? So it won't be a tragedy when we don't exist anymore! It's just cool, really cool, that we happened at all.

They had one summer on that pier twenty-five years ago which felt like it was going to last forever, because that's how all summers must feel when you're about to turn fifteen, that's the age when friendship is like joining the mafia: you can't leave it, you know too much.

And you don't know what to do with shitloads of money? Damn, you're a bad teenager. Buy a sports car! And drugs! Start a zoo! I would have bought a bunch of monkeys. You can't be in a bad mood if you've got a bunch of monkeys. Especially if you've also got drugs.

Life is long, but it moves at high speed, a single step here or there can be enough to ruin everything.