Book: Oscar and the Pink lady

- What do you accuse them of?
- They're afraid of me. They don't dare talk to me. And the more they are timid, the more I think of myself as a monster. Why? Am I terrifying them? Am I so ugly? Did I become an idiot and didn't notice it myself?
- Oscar, they're not afraid of you. They are afraid of your illness.
My illness is a part of me. They shouldn't change their behavior because I'm sick. Can they only love me when I'm healthy?

But if I were him, if I were God, if I had opportunities like him, I would try to avoid suffering.
- No one can escape suffering. Neither God nor you. Not your parents, not me.
- Okay. I agree. But why suffer?
- Exactly. Suffering is a misery. Look closely at his face. Take a look. Does he have a suffering appearance?
- Nope. Wow, it doesn't seem to hurt.
- Well, yes. It is necessary to distinguish between two types of torment, baby Oscar, - physical suffering and moral suffering. Physical suffering is a test. Moral suffering is a choice.
- I don't understand.
- If nails are driven into your legs or wrists, you have no choice but to experience pain. You tolerate. On the contrary, at the thought of death you do not have to experience pain. You don't know what it is. So it's up to you.

She opened the door, and then we both really got scared and screamed that there was urine: she - because she did not expect to stumble upon me here, and I - because I forgot that she was so black.

“You're right, Oscar. I think that the same mistake is made in relation to life. We forget that life is thin, fragile, ephemeral. We do our best to appear immortal.

No one can escape suffering. Neither God nor you. Neither your parents nor me.

Doctors just do not give up. They have always left a lot of ideas about what else can you do.

To tell the truth, I'm not afraid of the unknown. Worries me that we have to lose someone you knew.

... life has many solutions, and therefore the only solution.

We forget that life is delicate, fragile, ephemeral. We do everything to seem immortal.

... little kids have yet to have enough time to grow them.

- Want to sleep here with me?
Girls is something. I have such a phrase would have spun in the brain of the hours, weeks, months before I managed it to squeeze out of himself. And she made it so natural, so easy.

Should you believe in him, and each time he will become a little more real. Show some tenacity, and he will really exist for you. And then it is good for you.

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If you say the word "death" no one's listening. You can be sure, it flies in some kind of hole, because they immediately start talking about something else.