Цитаты из произведения Захватывающее время — стр. 12

As she’s telling the story, it hits me — this is how she escapes. She runs away to her perfectly tidy room and disappears into faraway galaxies. I’ll bet it’s the same with her schoolwork because, from what I can tell, she gets no encouragement in that direction from her family. Her brother and mother and Randy, the…

Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. It’s weird — I can feel exhausted but still, I just lie there wide awake, staring up into the dark with all sorts of ideas bombarding me like dead pelicans.

I’m saying that stuff gets old too. It has its own built-in obsolescence like everything else. That’s how our system works. It’s a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society’s a training ground for addicts.

I remember going to a bank with my dad when I was like four or something. And, you know, nowadays a bank lobby is the most boring place in the world next to the post office, but back then it was magic. They had this little pool of water in there with a fountain in the middle of it. I couldn’t believe my eyes. A pool of…

Everything’s fabulous when it’s new. Like when you’re a little kid. Everything is a sparkling wonder.

As if that’s real patriotic. People like that go around acting like if you want peace, then you’re some kind of anti-American, anti-military traitor scum. Seems more pro-military to me if you want to stop getting Americans killed. I’ve grown up around military people all my life—my dad, my uncles. I don’t want them even…

I know her type — all her life her parents spoiled her and told her she was “the most specialest little honey-bunny snookems in the world” and she never figured out that the rest of the universe doesn’t necessarily share that opinion.