Book: Empire Falls

Decisions made in a fit of passion are rarely healthy.

She was neither popular nor unpopular, she did not wear fashionable clothes (at the insistence of her mother) and intuitively guessed, as it happens with other rare girls, that there are things in the world worse than unpopularity and that life is a long thing, so the day will come when she will get quite acceptable breasts, and while she is already all right, no matter what others think.

... Happiness fills it as a whole, and you need to make every effort to hide your condition from friends. Love is the feeling of such happiness.

There's nothing worse than a bad cop.

... Something absolutely creepy doesn't last long.

Men are just what they are.

... Sex is too ephemeral to compensate for other disadvantages ...

There is no permanent luck or bad luck in nature - except for the Red Sox, a team that seems to be damned forever.

It's amazing ... how the heart flutters when they are carried away with you, especially in adulthood, when the time for hobbies seems to have passed. Suddenly to be incomparable and desired - to feel incomparable and desired ...

Mrs. Walsh was not a great thinker, but she tried to bring everything to the end, which was impossible not to admire. Find out. Do It. And don't get hung up on all sorts of different little things. The problem with comprehending reality is that there is no end to it, there is no deadline, after which the thought must be turned into action. Comprehending is like sitting on a committee that rarely makes recommendations (which, however, is almost always ignored) - a committee that does not even have the power to dissolve itself.

After all, what is our entire vast world if not a place of residence for people who cherish ardent and unfulfilling desires that have taken root in their souls and blossomed contrary to logic, the theory of probability and even flowing through the fingers of time, eternal, like polished marble?

The truth often takes on an awkward, caricatured look ...

… It is much easier to forget about a thousand things that you wanted to remember than one that you would gladly vanish from your head forever.

One of the oddities of middle age ... is that a person suddenly discovers that he has made an idiotic decision, without realizing it, as if by chance, moving away, for example, from his friends.