“Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.”
“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
“People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.”
“Where is your homework?" Mr. McNulty asked.It's with Ariel."There's no such thing as homework," I said."What?""I mean, I left it at home.”
“We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.”
“Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.”