Top 86 Andrew Smith Quotes
#1. Henry believed that Marbury was a world out of balance. He needs to take a closer look at this one.
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#2. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means.
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#9. 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.
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#10. But when I was quiet ... that made words too. The same words that make horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.
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#11. I don't let just anyone fine me, you know?
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#12. 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.
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#13. I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.
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#15. The more time you wait before telling somebody the truth about a secret you've been keeping, the longer your path out of the woods gets.
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#16. We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule.
Boys are not allowed to love each other.
Then we painted a bison on the wall.
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#17. Sometimes books imitate life. And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books.
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#18. My brother Max nodded knowingly. Head injuries can answer a lot of questions that genetics are just too afraid to ask.
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#19. They were both so beautiful, and their sound, as we said them to each other above the music, made our chests fill up with something electric and buzzing, like love and magic.
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#20. Researched Heinrich Fuchs. There were a lot of Fuchs in Splugen. Splugen was full of dumb Fuchs. The Swiss are famous for maintaining neutrality, except, apparently, when it comes to shooting at monstrous bugs with someone else's sperm.
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#22. after midnight
Just words.
No more pictures. No charts or plays or poems.
Now it's just about the words.
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#23. History provides a compelling argument that every scientist who tinkers around with unstoppable shit needs a reliable flamethrower.
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#24. I thought about words - like words in books - and how just saying them made things real.
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#25. There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.
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#26. 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.
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#27. I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through.
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#28. I think it is always appropriate to end a conversation about sperm with a sweaty handshake.
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#30. If I could pray
and I'd stopped doing that nonsense long before the miracle of the refrigerator
I imagined praying, but I didn't know who to direct it to.
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#31. 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.
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#32. I do not know why, because that is not my job, but history shows that every time a teenage boy opens a permanent marker, he will first sniff it before deciding how to go about defacing the planet.
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#33. 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.
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#35. It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words.
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#36. I think everyone's an arrow like that, too, aiming into their own centers.
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#37. Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.
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#38. Everyone on every road that crossed beneath the point of my pen was always going to do the same things over and over and over.
I was confused.
How could I be in love with a girl and a boy, at the same time?
I was trapped forever.
You know what I mean.
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#39. All good books are about everything, abbreviated.
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#40. Okay, well . . . yeah, I didn't really say "Shut the fuck up," because I honestly don't cuss. But I wanted to. I think, in reality, I raised my finger to my lips and said, "Shhhhh," so she wouldn't say anything else as we spiraled into the center of that wish circle.
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#41. The end of the world was one week old and it was getting out of hand.
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#42. People naturally believe things they see. Nobody argues with the irrefutable postings on YouTube.
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#43. YOU KNOW HOW WHEN you're a senior in high school, and you officially know absolutely everything about everything and no one can tell you different, but on the other hand, at the same time, you're dumber than a poorly translated instruction manual for a spoon?
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#44. History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.
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#45. History does show that nothing means a hell of a lot more than nothing when teenagers talk. In this case, Robby knew it meant that I did not want to talk about it, so he left me alone.
Robby Brees was such a good friend.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.
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#49. Do you think I'm queer, Rob?" I asked.
"I don't care if you're queer," Robby said. "Queer is just a word. Like orange. I know who you are. There's no one word for that.
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#50. We killed this big hairy thing and that big hairy thing. And that was our day. You know what I mean.
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#51. 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.
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#52. People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.
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#53. Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex.
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#54. I guess that's a sign of growing up: When your dad shuts up but you can hear him anyway.
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#55. 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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#56. 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.
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#57. Robby called me Porcupine because of how I wore my hair. I didn't mind. Everyone else called me Austin.
Austin Szerba.
It is Polish.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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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#60. All roads lead past shooting ranges, liquor stores, and gay bars. Wanderlust is part of the American Spirit.
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#61. History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.
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#62. Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody.
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#63. Not a very pretty world, is it?"
"Which one?
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#64. 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.
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#66. I suppose the things that transform your life don't appear as you fancifully imagine they will.
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#67. I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.
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#68. You could never get everything in a book. Good books are always about everything.
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#69. Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.
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#70. You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.
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#72. I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.
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#73. People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control.
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#74. I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we.
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#75. The planet of humans and dogs spins and sails, spins and sails.
There is nothing I can do about it. Things keep moving. The knackery never shuts down.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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
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#78. 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
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#79. I realize that death and survival are both extremes of selfishness.
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#80. Please do not shoot us in the balls, EJ Elgin. It is only me, Robby Brees, and my friend, Austin Szerba, who is your next-door neighbor, and we are not rat boys from Mars. We come in peace, and smoking cigarettes." "Benson
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#81. Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior
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#82. 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.
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#83. And I'm pretty sure that everyone in the Pacific Northwest heard Ryan Dean West shout, YOUSTEPPEDONMYFUCKINGNUTSYOUSONOFABITCH!
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#84. Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in the road you build.
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#86. Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no.
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