What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.
Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.
Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.
I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.
Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.
Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
or simply:
