Quotes from book

Rant

“We'll never be as young as we are tonight.”

“History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.”

“Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.”

“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.”

“Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.”

“You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.”

“Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

“By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.”

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

“How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.”

“Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.”

“You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.”

“After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life”

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

“We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.”

“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”