Jonah Black

I'm telling you, this guy's a genius

“I guess I can almost forgive everybody. Life is so damned complicated, it’s amazing more people just don’t flip out.”

“I wound up standing around the keg, because it seemed like a good place to be. Seriously, though, I felt like a loser, It was that weird feeling I get sometimes when I realize one of the loneliest places in the world can be in a room filled with people you don’t know. “

“It’s funny how all the girls have salad for lunch. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a girl eat pizza. They put salad on their plates, and either eat it dry (which is about the grossest thing I can think of), or else they put the dressing on the side, or else they use the fat-free vinaigrette and maybe splurge for a yogurt. I think it’s sad that girls don’t allow themselves to enjoy food. There are a couple of girls in my class, like Tine Cleveland, who can’t weigh more than ninety-five pounds. She never eats anything except dry lettuce, and after class she’s in the gym on the treadmill, running it off. They say that girls who are anorexic can’t see themselves-like they look in the mirror and all they see is some huge person. It’s really sad, but I think I can kind of understand what that’s like. Seeing yourself as you really are is hard to do.”

More Later, I'm still reading

Okay, I'm all done now. Nothing more to read, no more good life insight. You know what I realized? Jonah is a fictional character! I almost died when I read that on the website. Here I am thinking "Oooh now I'm inside the mind of some horny teenaged guy, this is so great" (and no I don't mean it that way) and he's not even real! That really changes things, but I still think he's a genius.

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