Quotes from Chris Crutcher

He knew that we take what the universe gives us, and we either get the most out of it or we don't, but in the end we all go out the same way.

When you're different, on the down side, you learn to live from one scarce rich moment to the next, no matter the distance between.

It wasn't a very Christian thing to do, that's all.

Man with Brain the Size of Tic Tac Mates with Amoeba Couple gives birth to giant adjusto; names him Dale

Darlin'," he says, draining his coffee cup, "I can come up with solutions all day long and you can come up with reasons. Either you take control or all you've got left is reasons.

He goes for people's open wounds, then brings God in with air support. You have to agree, there's a certain cowardice to that approach.

Of all my dysfunctional behaviors, she hates me putting empty containers back where they don't belong. "I don't care if you weigh seven hundred pounds the rest of your life and don't stop picking your nose till you're forty," she told me once, "but if you put one more empty container anywhere but in the garbage, I'll have you put to sleep.

What I hope we can learn is to be aware of how our beliefs color what we see." I wanted to tell Brittain that Lemry was trying

Taking on someone else's monsters will kill you." He

Then he said if I ever want to see how something works, just look at it broken.

our points of view—the way we perceive things—are inextricably linked to our beliefs. If

My dad leaves bruises on the inside.

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us;at the same time, look at any one of us in the vast space I am seeing out the window of this bus, which is a molecule on a cell on a flea on a hair on a wart of the known universe.

Sarah Byrnes was home with Lemery and safe from her father. I knew i didnt have to protect her anymore now that she is with someone I trust.

Hey, cowboy, what's happening?

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

SIXTEEN YEARS AGO IN HISTORY

Man, what kind of a fucked-up world is this? You should have to be a lot more than decent to be a kid's hero.

Mr. Nak taught me a trick. He told me to think of fear as a person who's going to be around whether he's invited or not. He said, "Think of him like a big ol' bully pain-in-the-butt cousin you cain't get rid of, an' the only way to get your binniss done is to allow him to tag along, because he's goin' to anyway. Then don't take your eye off him a minute, so he don't get the chance to make you look like a horse's patoot.

I'm a little kinder to myself most of the time. I tell myself I learned an important lesson the hard way: that the universe doesn't make allowances for mental lapses or ignorance, but that maybe I'm a better man because I know that.

Love in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one on one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of that love is weighted by how much better.

You should have to be a lot more than decent to be a kid's hero.

144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We want our place to stand.

A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.