Language Magic

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

She read with conviction, with passion – and the women listened.

My grandkids always beat me at Rock Band. And I say, Listen, you may beat me at Rock Band, but I made the original records, so shut up.

The laughter made the hair on the back of her neck try to stand.

That you could go from running to lifeless on the ground that quickly laid bare the randomness of death and its converse: the fragile randomness of life. If there was a God guiding our collective fates, I couldn’t see or feel Him anymore. He wasn’t with us there. It was just Benjy and me, smoking cigarettes, talking, and his machine gun.

guys remember when Lemony Snicket filled an entire page with evers? 

Who cares about the page filled with evers? Lemony Snicket just made two whole pages black.

And that time he repeated an entire passage about deja vu to give the reader deja vu

I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.