16 quotes
"Anything you do a lot of, you get good at."
The Trees (2016)
"Work out what you really want from life."
The Trees (2016)
The rain watered the world so heavily that he wondered if it might rinse it away. He did not think he would mind if it did.
The Trees (2016)
"What good is being in love with a person, if it only binds you to a thousand quiet disappointments, and new problems for every one that you fix?"
The Trees (2016)
"Look at you. Your folded arms. Your smug sneer. How do men like you get put in charge of the world, when you don't know the first thing about it?"
The Trees (2016)
"Things die," said Leonard. "Deal with it."
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She had lost faith in him so gradually that at first he'd hardly even noticed.
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How he hated gardening. "Mother Nature is a psychopath," he'd told Michelle, "and I won't spend my weekends on my hands and knees, painting her toenails."
The Trees (2016)
"Listen, have you ever had one of those nights when you guess how many healthy years you've got left and think, Oh shit, that's not enough?"
The Trees (2016)
"I don't think I'm going to be a pessimist when I grow up."
He chuckled. "I never thought I was going to be one either, when I was your age."
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"They're , . . my friends."
You said you hated having friends. You said all they did was waste your free time, and cost you money at Christmas."
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She folded her arms, suddenly feeling like she used to at school: the stupid one who answered questions wrong. That was the reason why she didn't do much talking. Talking was deceit, one of the games people played to keep themselves from looking the world in the eye.
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"There's no shame in giving up," said Adrien. "I give up on all sorts of things."
He whipped out his hip flask and offered it to her.
She drank more than he felt he had been offering.
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"We're vegetarians," explained Hannah, "did I mention that before?"
"Er . . . no," said Adrien, a carnivore's disappointment writ large across his face.
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"He said, "What's the point of being alive if all you do is look at a screen?"
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Adrien had always considered cider a crude drink, flavoured like a highway underpass.
The cider was bitter and salty both, like sea air cheering the senses just as it stung them.
He had a lot of thinking to do, and thinking was always less daunting with a glass in hand.
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