"Primer on David Aames Senior. My father wasn't built for the 21st century. He never went to McDonald's, not once. He never watched television, and yet... his biggest magazine is still the TV Digest. He and my mother threw the grandest parties of the literary world. Ballooned. Jumped out of airplanes. He sought adventure. His autobiography is the manual... for every cutthroat publisher in New York City."

"I dug her completely. Some how I'd found the last semi-guy less girl in New York City."

"Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?"

"My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works..."

"That smile's gonna be the end of me."

"The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?"

"Good. Because for a minute there I thought we were talking about A FUCKING MASK!!!"

"I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry."

"I remember. Somebody died. It was me."

"Look at us. I'm frozen, and you're dead. And I love you."

"Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search."

"These? These are more than headaches. These are steel plates slicing through my every thought."

"I wanna wake up! Tech support! It's a nightmare! Tech support! Tech support!"

"I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer."

"You're not blind. You're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack, you start in with that... Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, "King of Sad" thing."

"A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence, like the Normandy invasion. (Sofia, Sofia...) I'll just say it - I did my homework. I read every memo. Thomas Tipp was right: People will read again."

"You keep the relationship casual, until the absolute breaking point. And then one evening or afternoon or morning, it could be months from now. Well, you know how it works"

"I don't care if God calls, I'm very, very busy."

"I am a pleasure delayer."

"I'll tell you in another life when we are both cats."

"I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini."

"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."

"But I just think good things will happen, if you are a good person with a good attitude, don't you think?"

"Holy God. This is going to change my life in a zillion different ways. I must be nuts."

"I meant that to be your forehead."

"Come here... I want to tell you a secret."

"I'll find you again."

"You can do whatever you want with your life, but one day you'll know what love truly is. It's the sour and the sweet. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet."

"You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone."

"My own death was in front of me, and you know what happened? Your life flashed before my eyes."

"Because I am Frank, and Frank must go. I good you bid evening."

"Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not!"

"What's happiness to you, David?"

"We had sex four times. Four times! I swallowed your cum, it means something!"

"Happiness to me, is being here with you!"

"Its been a brilliant journey of self-awakening, now you simply have to ask yourself this... What is happiness to you David?"

"Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own. What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?"

"Open Your Eyes"

"LoveHateDreamsLifeWorkPlayFriendshipSex"

"Looks Can Be Deceiving!"

"Forget everything you know about life, and just open your eyes…"

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