--Invisible by Pete Hautman
“The thing I don’t understand is, tomorrow all those kids who were throwing food at one another will still be friends. They’ll be laughing and making small talk and everything will be okay. But they won’t be laughing and making small talk with me. I don’t understand. I think there is something wrong with them.”
--Invisible by Pete Hautman
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“Friday night things get tense at the Hanson residence when Andrea Doris Louis-Hanson tells Henry Clay Hanson that their son, Douglas McArthur Hanson, failed to keep his appointment with Dr. Eleanor Ahlstrom. Words are exchanged. Accusations fly. Ignorance and delusion are revealed, naked and ugly. Threats burn up the air like wildfire. Concessions are displayed and offered for sale. Promises are surgically extracted. I end up in my room. I am quite worried about my parents. Some of the theories my father advanced were quite bizarre, and my mother seemed to accept them. I think they are both losing touch with reality.”
--Invisible by Pete Hautman “That is the secret to staying best friends with someone—you learn what not to talk about. For instance, we never talk about the Tuttle place. We don’t like to think about that.”
--Invisible by Pete Hautman “I’ve been working on Madham for two years and eleven months now. I guess you could say that I’m not only disturbed, I’m obsessed.”
--Invisble by Pete Hautman “I am very easy to get along with. My mother would not agree with that. She finds me difficult. In fact, she thinks that I am troubled and disturbed. I find it troubling that she finds me disturbing, so she must be right. Right?”
--Invisible by Pete Hautman “It does not matter to Andy that we live in completely different realities. I’m Andy’s best friend. It does not matter to Andy that we hardly ever actually do anything together. Why should it? We are best friends, me and Andy. Best. Friends.”
--Invisible by Pete Hautman “There is another thing to know about trains. They are large and dangerous. They would crush you if they could, but they are confined by those two narrow strips of steel. Trains are like fire. You don’t want to get in their way.”
--Invisible by Pete Hautman |