The world is so big, you can’t believe it, this smelly room is just part of it

Alexie 2022-03-24 09:01:15

1. "The potted plants are real, the trees are fake; the mountains are too big, so are the seas; the TV shows are painted with colors, but you and I are real"
2. "Jack, the world is very big, It’s very big, you can’t believe it. This smelly room is just a part of it."
3. Grandma’s boyfriend was at the door. In order to make the injured little Jack bold, she deliberately pretended that no one was playing with him. It felt so warm when she saw it.
4. There are so many places in the world, but not so much time, because time has to be thinly laid out in different places. So everyone said, hurry up, let us take action, move faster, and get things done now. My mother was anxious to rush to heaven, but she forgot about me, so the alien threw her down again, snapped down, and broke her.
5. Mom and I made a decision, because we didn't know what we liked, so we tried everything. There are so many things in the world, sometimes scary, but it doesn't matter, because you are still with me.
6. "Is it just that room?" "Yes" "Is it shrinking?"
7. "Goodbye potted plant, goodbye chair no.1, goodbye chair no.2, goodbye table, goodbye sink, goodbye wardrobe, goodbye skylight, mother, "Say goodbye to the room", adults think it is hell, children think it is heaven, they have not experienced freedom, and they will not feel that lack of freedom is so painful, so people's pain is because they are unwilling to be lonely.

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Room quotes

  • Jack: Ma and I have decided that since we don't know what we like, we get to try *everything.*

  • Jack: [thinking to himself] One, two, three... There's room, then outer space, with all the TV planets, then heaven. Plant is real, but not trees. Spiders are real, and one time the mosquito that was sucking my blood. But squirrels and dogs are just TV, except lucky. He's my dog who might come some day. Monsters are too big to be real, and the sea. TV persons are flat and made of colors. But me and you are real.