“I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood.""I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud.”
“Chalk one up to ingenuity.”
“I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.”
“I was white. Chalk had more color than I did. And quite possibly more personality.”
“But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.”
“If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination”