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

  • Old Nick: What's that smell?

    Ma: Sorry, I burned some cheese. Here. I just wasn't thinking.

    Old Nick: Well, thinking is not your strong suit.

  • Ma: [about the mouse] He's on the other side of this wall.

    Jack: What other side?

    Ma: Jack, there's two sides to everything.

    Jack: Not on an octagon.

    Ma: Yeah, but...

    Jack: [Interrupts] An octagon has eight sides

    Ma: But a wall, okay, a wall's like this, see? And we're on the inside and mouse is on the outside.

    Jack: In outer space?

    Ma: No, in the world. It's much closer than outer space.

    Jack: I can't see the outside-side.

    Ma: Listen, I know that I told you something else before, but you were much younger. I didn't think that you could understand, but now you're so old, you're so smart. I know that you can get this. Where do you think that old Nick gets our food?

    Jack: From TV by magic!