Цитаты из произведения We Are All Completely Fine

Each of us, as we turned off the light, felt a tingle of dread. But that was all right.The feeling was as familiar as the dark. Some of us thought of what Jan had whispered in the basement, words that Stan had repeated for the others as we said our goodbyes. We`re different from other people, she`d said. We only feel at…

We were criminals now: murderers and kidnappers and conspirators. As a therapy group we had clinched the prize for Worst Outcome Ever.

A monster crosses over into the everyday world. The mortals struggle and show great courage, but it`s no use. The monster kills first the guilty, then the innocent, until finally one remains. The Last Boy, the Last Girl. There is a final battle. The Last One suffers great wounds, but in the final moment vanquishes the…

We were a team of professional insomniacs. Once you there are monsters under the bed, closing your eyes becomes a foolhardy act. So, we paced. We stared into the dark. We listened for the creak of the opening door.

We. Such a slippery little pronooun. Who is in and who is out? If we say, "we lost one of us," the number included in the pronoun changes in midsentence. To Martin the word was like a variable in a computer program, a running counter that had a different value depending on when you looked at it. But the problem was more…

"Also, I might be entertaining the idea of tamping down my nihilism. Just a bit. Not because life is not meaningless -- I think that`s inarguable. It`s just that the constant awareness of its pointlessness is exhausting. I wouldn`t mind being oblivious again. I`d love to feel the wind in my face and think, just for a…

He was suspicious of the very premise of therapy. The idea that people could change themselves, he told Dr. Sayer in their pre-group interview, was a self-serving delusion. She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with…

"You can`t blame people for wanting to tell your story," Greta said. "You`re a hero." "That`s bullshit," he said. "Not total bullshit," she said. "You`re an optimist. Let`s agree that the glass is half full of shit." "You saved an entire town!" "If by 'saving' you mean that slightly fewer died than every single fucking…