That Was Then, This Is Now Quotes

″‘The difference is,’ I said evenly, ‘that was then, and this is now.‘”

“I had been friends with Mark long before he came to live with us. He had lived down the street and it seemed to me that we had always been together. We had never had a fight. We had never even had an argument. In looks, we were complete opposites…He was my best friend and we were like brothers.”

“You just rescued me from some guys who were going to beat me up because I’m different from them, and now you’re going to beat up someone because he’s different from you.”

“Man, if anybody ever hurt me like that I’d hate them for the rest of my life.”

“Bryon, you’re an honest kid in most ways, but you lie like a dog. Take Mark—I wouldn’t trust him around anything that wasn’t nailed down, but I’d believe anything he said. I’d trust you with my wife, if I had one. I trust your actions, but I double-check most of your statements.”

“I felt cold and hot and sick and mad all at once. I only felt it for a second, only for a second and then it was gone—but sometimes now I wonder how it would be to feel like that all your life.”

“You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love best in the world.”

“I have stared at a book pretending I couldn’t hear what was going on around me, too. If people think you can’t hear them, they talk as if you couldn’t. You can hear some pretty neat stuff that way.”

“Really, man, remember? It was great, we were like a bunch of people makin’ up one big person, like we totaled up to somethin’ when we were together.”

“It’s kind of a good thing, too, when you know your own personality so you don’t need the one the gang makes for you.”

“Mark was acting strange these days, too…It was as if he felt something slipping and was trying to hang on. I couldn’t help him; I was trying to hang on myself.”

“I was the hustler and Mark was the thief. We were a great pair.”

“We were like brothers, no just you and me, but all of us together. We woulda died for each other then.”