Tales of the Madman Underground Quotes

Cheryl and her sister got punished if they "disrespected" the old troll."Well, that all sucks the big one," I said."Yeah." She was looking down at her desk. (3.11-13)

Paul and me had been best friends since we shared a playpen—our dads had been best friends for like five years before we were born. We were like two pieces of the same guy; I got the muscles and...

With Danny walking just behind us, I was reminded how big he was, and how tiny Cheryl was; it made me feel safe to have him standing over me and it made me feel like her protector to be standing ne...

I looked at that bottle of cheap fake wine and saw things real clear, the way you see them just before you start to drink to get drunk: I would drink away my money and time and energy, and be a f**...

I had developed this theory all summer: if I could be perfectly, ideally, totally normal for the first day of my senior year, which was today, then I could do it for the first week, which was only...

They were both grinning like this was the funniest s*** in the world, and went on into tradition jokes about the sex lives of people who were mostly dead now. They'd talk about a time when some guy...

Paul started calling the therapy group the "Madman Underground," and everyone else picked it up. The name stuck like a coat of paint, at least inside the group. And supposedly nobody outside the gr...

When SkyMusic had gotten clawed up by a raccoon and been in godawful pain from his infected wounds, I'd broken down—I had sworn I'd never spend a dime on those cats, but he was suffering so badâ€...

I knew it was dangerous to get all dumb and sentimental. And yet all the same, right when I was about to sign up for my senior year classes, I tried to really celebrate Mom's birthday, instead of j...

Thinking about Dad was a bad way to start the plan because it could make me blow acting normal all to hell and nobody would understand, since he'd been dead for almost four years—four years exact...