01c. 1970 ADHere's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)A.S. King / quote ↗
02c. 1970 AD--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.A.S. King / quote ↗
03c. 1970 ADOh. I get it now. God had Nader beat my ass and my mom leave my dad just so Jodi could learn how to chop onions and use a propane grill. Great. Awesome.A.S. King / quote ↗
04c. 1970 ADmaybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.A.S. King / quote ↗
05c. 1970 ADI can't help seeing a cage for what it is. Sure, it protects the bulb, but maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.A.S. King / quote ↗
06c. 1970 ADSome of you have it ingrained in you. You weren't born with it. No baby has hate for anything. We were all babies once, right? This little guy doesn't care what country you were born in or what religion you might practice or how much you weigh or who you might love.A.S. King / quote ↗
07c. 1970 ADSure, Mom.They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.A.S. King / quote ↗
09c. 1970 ADI'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.A.S. King / quote ↗
10c. 1970 ADShe smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.A.S. King / quote ↗
12c. 1970 ADWhat's the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow. I'm not sure if I'm mad or sane. I mean, I hold my life together, I pay my bills, I raise my kids. But the world is so polarized and bizarre now that for some people, none of these these things matter if they're not wearing the right shoes or don't have the right credit score or a fancy family car. Some people think the most important things to worry about are handbags and tan lines. Meanwhile, war and crime and poverty unfold all around us, and we ignore it. In that environment, how can we even begin to talk about sanity and madness?A.S. King / quote ↗
13c. 1970 ADAfter I lie there for a while, I realize that Dad isn't every going to do anything but be there to drive us home from the airport. And cook. And if I want something bigger to change, it's up to me. I'm scared shitless, yes. I'm doubtful, yes. But I'm angry. Angry that I am doing this because Dad can't. But then I sniff breakfast, and I know that Dad is doing what he can.A.S. King / quote ↗
14c. 1970 ADShe talks about how she can't exercise because of the ailments-a bad back, sore knees, breathing difficulties-all caused by her weight gain.A.S. King / quote ↗
15c. 1970 ADLook at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?A.S. King / quote ↗
16c. 1970 ADEven though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.A.S. King / quote ↗
17c. 1970 ADI wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.A.S. King / quote ↗
18c. 1970 ADBy shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.A.S. King / quote ↗
19c. 1970 ADWhat occurs to me at this second is this: There is a huge world out there. I only know my dumb family and my dumb house and my dumb school and my dumb job. But there is a huge world out there…and most of it is underwater.A.S. King / quote ↗
20c. 1970 ADMy one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.A.S. King / quote ↗
21c. 1970 ADCancer doesn’t give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.A.S. King / quote ↗
