Цитаты из произведения Эмпайр Фоллз — стр. 4

The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.

He’d meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He’d also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again.

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Она улыбнулась, и видно было, как борются в ней надежда и опыт, бьются на кулаках, и им вовек не одолеть друг друга

"... - На сколько фунтов ты похудел с тех пор, как мы последний раз виделись? - Не знаю. На много, наверное. - У тебя ведь не рак, правда? - Нет, только ребенок. Некоторые переживают за своих детей."

– В школе тебе небось говорят, что у нас свободная страна. Джимми не стал отрицать, что в его присутствии не раз высказывалось подобное суждение. – Ага, так вот не верь им. У них все кругом схвачено, они все просчитали. На ком ты женишься. Где вы с ней будете жить, сколько будете платить за жилье. Сколько ты будешь…

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about - acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.