Dixon: This sucks. Debbie: Dixon, how about a new phrase like 'this bites' or 'this blows'? Because you've been saying 'this sucks' for the last 1,500 miles. Dixon: 'Cause it sucks.
— Rob Thomas, Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah, Dixon Wilson, Tristan Mack Wilds, imdb.com
There was nothing left to say.
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death.
Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through.
Everyone thinks it was because of the snow.
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
In my first memory, I am three years old and I am trying to kill my sister.
The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.
Be soft.
Water clings to my wrists. It has been my fragrance since birth.
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I slept on one of the couches in Camilla’s living room, using my packed duffel bag as a pillow and my jacket as a blanket.
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