Andrew Smith Quotes
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"History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception."
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"Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract- like breathing, but you could never fill your lungs up with the same air twice."
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"All good books are about everything, abbreviated."
"Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second."
"I thought about words - like words in books - and how just saying them made things real."
History does show that boys who dance are far more likely to pass along their genes than boys who don't.
Boys who dance are genetic volcanoes.
Well, if I'm going to get beat up for being queer, at least I'd like to know one time what it feels like to be kissed."
"Um. I guess you deserve that. You know. Everyone deserves to not feel alone.
"Sometimes books imitate life. And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books."
The one sure thing about Marbury is that it's a horrible place. But so is right here, too. And there's certain benefit in the obviousness of its brutality, because in Marbury there's no doubt about the nature of things: good and evil, or guilt and innocence, for example. Not like here, where you could be sitting in the park next to a doctor or someone and not have any idea what a sick and dangerous sonofabitch he really is. Because we always expect things to be proper, even if we haven't learned our fucking lesson that it just doesn't work out like that all the time.
"I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed.
This is history, and it is also the truth."
"Here is what the end of the world looks like:
It looks like a child running out into the road, eyes focused only on some destination ahead - the future, which is on the other side - and the child fails to notice the speeding truck that is there, on that same road, in the present.
This is what the end of the world looks like.
All roads cross here."
He was a little guy, a former winger too, and he was a transplant from England who could talk the most civilized-sounding shit you would ever hear, and he could cuss you out with the most vicious obscenities and
"There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again."
"Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it."
"I said a silent prayer. Actually, silent is probably the only type of prayer a guy should attempt when his head's in a toilet."
"People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control."
I suppose the things that transform your life don't appear as you fancifully imagine they will.
"But when I was quiet ... that made words too. The same words that make horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love."
"Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened."
"I pictured the first time we saw the girl, breezing past us in that Lincoln, blond hair whirling around her, her glasses tipped down, her smile, the stroke of her fingers. The teasing.
Simon tumbled the meteorite around in the sweat of his hand. I wondered what it would be like to look down at the earth, to fall, to burn brilliantly in the air like the image of the girl who passed by, kicking back dust like cosmic ash, and could she see that, now; was she up there above us?
I wondered.
We closed our eyes."
"When you think about it, the universe is nothing but this vast knackery of churning black holes and exploding stars, constantly free atoms that collect together and become something else, and something else again."
"Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone."
"Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it."
The end of the world was one week old and it was getting out of hand.
"There's no prison worse than I promise."
"Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior"
"Just as I opened the door from the boys' floor, I stumbled onto Mr. Farrow and that freakishly unhot witch from downstairs, Mrs. Singer.
Standing at the landing on the tenantless girls' floor. They were kissing, and it wasn't one of those innocent oh-hello-you-frosty-and-cadaverous-old-hag-from-downstairs-so-nice-to-see-you-this-afternoon pecks on the cheek, either."
"Look: Words did not frighten my father. They scared the shit out of me. I almost couldn't believe I'd worked up the guts to ask the question and not choke to death in the process. But words were the atoms in my father's universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator."
"I guess that's a sign of growing up: When your dad shuts up but you can hear him anyway."
"History shows that erections happen at the worst possible times, and they stick around until someone else notices them. Often, it is either a librarian or an English teacher, like Mrs. Edith Mitchell."
"You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything."
"I am not the only one who sometimes thinks I came from the pages of a book my father wrote.
Maybe it's like that for all boys of a certain -or uncertain- age: We feel as though there are no choices we'd made through all those miles and miles behind us that hadn't been scripted by our fathers, and that our futures are only a matter of flipping the next page that was written ahead of us.
I am not the only one who's ever been trapped inside a book."
"To me, hearing that those girls gave my brother Eric a blow job sounded very nice.
History shows that all boys consider blow job to be a nice-sounding set of words.
I thought a blow job was putting your face in front of an air conditioner, which is something all nine-year-old boys love to do, even though Eric did not look like he had been cooled off very much."
History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man's library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.
"Hungry Jack's real name was Charles R. Hoofard.
He was born in Indianapolis in 1950.
In 1950, Harry S. Truman was president of the United States.
Harry Truman, as far as I can tell, also never took a shit in his life.
In 1950, the same year that a boy named Charles R. Hoofard was born in Indianapolis, President Harry S. Truman sent military assistance to the French. They were trying to maintain their French Catholic colony in Vietnam. That military aid would grow and blossom to the point that a boy with wanderlust from Indiana named Charles R. Hoofard ultimately took time out from fucking whatever he wanted to fuck to participate in the killing of an entire village of women, elderly people, and children.
History is full of shit like that."
"You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks and a trip to Sweden."
"The television was on. Leslie Mitchell had been watching a program about how to cook lamb when Hungry Jack came in and started eating him."
"My natural talent, I think, is in being fine-no matter what is actually going on inside me. I am fine. Nobody ever thinks otherwise."
"I'm foolishly self-conscious."
I don't know exactly what the Xanax did to me. All I can remember is how relaxed and not-uptight I felt. I did not care about anything. Everything was nice, very nice.
"Robby Brees was such a gifted theologian."
"I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will."
"Readers of history may decide that joking while two guys are driving around through a town that has recently been slaughtered by six-foot-tall praying mantis beasts with shark-tooth-studded arms is in poor taste.
But that is exactly what real boys have always done when confronted with the brutal aftermath of warfare."
"I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance floor."
"I am going to build something big for you."
"History will show that patient boys with a sense of humor, who can dance, tend to have more opportunities to participate in the evolution of the species than boys who give up and mope quietly on the sidelines"
Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody.
"I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through."
"I think it is always appropriate to end a conversation about sperm with a sweaty handshake."
I would die for Conner Kirk. Sometimes, I think I have died for him dozens of times, over and over again.
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