Book: Plaid Zebra

All the good in our lives can become even better and everything is terrible - even worse.

They say life is striped. She looks like a Zebra, black bands are replaced by white failure, when everything is just wonderful. I met the people who have always been bad, or, conversely, radiantly beautiful.
But poor Vera got a special, a checkered Zebra. Trouble and joy in her life were arranged in a checkerboard pattern.

We are all youth do stupid things, only sometimes, the fee for them is too high.

... Looks like she sees the world exclusively in black and white, lives in a simple coordinate system: fair or unfair, true and false. And ready to fight for his beliefs till the last drop of blood.

Damn the French are stupid at all! Bonjour... uh... Wu... Parla... uh... e-my... how is it in their language...

Can laugh at me all you want, but I like to draw diagrams when you look at the circles and arrows, sooner or later comes clarity of thought.

Made me sad: why am I climbed to the stranger? Why I decided to help someone you absolutely do not know? After all, how many times have you made a promise to myself: never again I will not show sympathy, if the person is not asked to take part in his life! Always get myself in a stupid situation.

- Listen, - I said, - we do not know and will never meet again if you talk about my grief, I can give advice or just listen. Trust me, you will feel better. Sometimes a stranger is easier to share.

The past is gone, future has not yet arrived, let's enjoy the here and now. What is the point to dig at the cluttered old attic, when you can go out in the garden and admire the blooming plants?