Quotes from Aaron Starmer

If you name things, then you treat them better.

The more time you spend with someone, the more you realize they're not perfect. Everyone comes from a different place with different problems.

He's not a bad guy, deep down," I said. My dad slipped the key into the door. "Deep down, no one is. But you make choices.

In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.

We were weirdos, Fiona and I. Creative minds like ours were the minds of aliens. And the soul-suckers, the plagiarists, the malicious people like Charlie? They were sapping us. It was our mission to get away from them.

To be continued is a terrible thing, I know. But life is to be continued. You want to be continued as long as possible.

Do you want to be saved?" I asked. Keri cocked an eyebrow. "Like Jesus?" "Like Lancelot." "I hang my hair out the window every night, waiting for some dude to climb up.

And as long as the world spins on, we can still dance. No matter who we are, we can always dance.

I was coming to realize that if you don't look for something, then you rarely find it.

It's in those moments of admitting and accepting your own terribleness that you realize other people can be terrible too. And if they can be terrible too, then maybe they can be vulnerable too, caring too, and all the things that you are and hope to be.

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.

Mornings were good. Cold mornings, rainy ones. It didn't matter. They were new beginnings.

War will change people.

Riverman, Riverman, blood to ice.

A lot of people say no matter what, but how many people actually experience no matter what? No matter what will fill up your head with a real mess.

I suppose everyone is a daydreamer, but I was better at it than most.

And do you know what love is? It's when you try to picture your life without someone and you can't.

I avoid writing until I can't avoid it anymore. Until writing comes knocking at my door like a friend I've neglected.

Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they're not true, they end up turning people into who they are.

It won't surprise you to hear that I'm a skeptical person. I don't even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.

He reached his hands toward the door and I figured what the hell. I'd never been in a silo before, and while that's not exactly bucket-list worthy, it's something to do when you're with a boy who intrigues you, scares you, and turns you on in equal measure.

My muse, whatever it is, is leading me to write stories.

I am happy with my life how it is for once. And I don't ever want to forget that. That's all that matters to me.

Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.