Цитаты из книг — Aaron Starmer

In the summer after seventh grade, Tess and I would ride there on our bikes and buy Mountain Dew, Twizzlers, and the latest issue of Vogue. We’d take it all down to a nearby creek, sit on the rocks, and use the Twizzlers as straws to drink the Mountain Dew while we’d tear pictures of models out of magazines and then fold…

“I don’t know,” I replied. “I like the idea of other dimensions.” Liking ideas is a good way to be noncommittal about things. For instance, if you ask a girl out and she says she likes the idea of going out with you, then it means that she’s not going out with you.

“If she thinks you’re a god, then why is she throwing things at us?” “Well, you always gotta have a few atheists."

At the library, there was a shelf of Choose Your Own Adventure novels. Charlie liked to read those books backward, searching for the happy endings first and figuring out the path of least resistance. I always read them the correct way, and I’d invariably find myself lost in a cave or bitten by a scorpion. I rarely made it…