From A Buick 8 Quotes

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.

I thought of telling him I didn't know about reasons, only about chains—how they form themselves, link by link, out of nothing; how they knit themselves into the world. Sometimes you can grab a chain and use it to pull yourself out of a dark place. Mostly, though, I think you get wrapped up in them. Just caught, if you're lucky. Fucking strangled, if you're not.

Tonight, however, the impossible was selling cheap.

I went into the can and shut the door before he had a chance to reply. And the next fifteen seconds or so were pure relief. Like beer, iced tea is something can can't buy, only rent.

All of us look younger and sweeter when we smile our real smiles, the ones that come when we're genuinely happy.

Take the dog with you,” I said.

But people have a really amazing capacity to get used to stuff, even stuff they don’t understand. A comet shows up in the sky and half the world goes around bawling about the Last Days and the Four Horsemen, but let the comet stay there six months and no one even notices. It’s a big ho-hum.

gob.

Passion is the hardest taskmaster.

Bosh." It was Curtis's favorite word in 1983. Sandy hated it. He thought it was a snotty word.

The imitation lives we see on TV and in the movies whisper the idea that human existence consists of revelations and abrupt changes of heart; by the time we’ve reached full adulthood, I think, this is an idea we have on some level come to accept. Such things may happen from time to time, but I think that for the most part it’s a lie. Life’s changes come slowly…the whole idea of curious cats attaining satisfaction seemed slightly absurd. The world rarely finishes its conversations.

There are (blue) Buicks everywhere.

All at once I felt like crying. And while I am at it, that's the other thing about men - just when you are at your most disgusted with them, they can lay you out some gratuitous act of generosity and all at once, stupid but true, instead of being mad you feel ashamed of yourself for ever having a mean and cynical thought about them.

People can get used to just about anything. That’s the best of our lives, I guess. Of course, it’s the horror of them, too.

Хората, които седят на стола на началника — които са положили усилия да го заемат и полагат усилия да се задържат на него — никога не си позволяват да кажат: „Заеби!“ и да отидат за риба. Не! Ние, шефовете, продължаваме съвестно да вършим тежката и досадна работа, да оправяме леглата, да мием чиниите, да събираме сеното на копи. „Ах, какво бихме правили без теб?“ — възклицават мнозина. Отговорът е, че както винаги повечето ще продължат да правят каквото са си наумили. Тоест — да вървят към гибелта си.

A harmonic,” Tony said. “That’s when two things start to vibrate together, like tuning-forks or wine-glasses.” Curtis was nodding. “Yeah, that’s it. I don’t know what could be causing it, but it’s very powerful. It seemed to settle right in the middle of my head, the way the sound of the powerlines up on the Bluff does when you’re standing right underneath them. This is going to sound crazy, but after a minute or so, that hum almost sounded like talking.

He got them where they belonged only after poking one bow into his mouth and the other into his left eyebrow.

He had decided the time had come to put the games away, that’s all.

there’s a pulse in our heads, all right, same as there’s one in our chests, and it carries unformed, no-language thoughts that most times we can’t even read, and they are usually the important ones.

These days it’s a lot more about how you feel than what you do. And I think that’s wrong.

There was no sense trying to reason your way through such moments, or trying to understand that neurotic attraction; best to just step back from the drop, put the gun back in its holster, drive away from the barracks.