Quotes from Aaron Starmer

Besides, static isn't so bad to listen to. Beats listening to your thoughts when your thoughts are a scramble of stories and you're having trouble telling what's real and what's a dream and what's a coincidence and what's basically what.

The Shop City Mall had been closed for over a decade. Stores sat empty the entire time, waiting for a rebirth that was often promised, but never came. My parents had always blamed its demise on Amazon and Target, but I blamed the fact that Cinnabon is fucking gross and not a single living person has ever bought anything from a Brookstone.

Routine can drop you so deep in a hole that you can't dig out, and you can't live in a hole your entire life.

She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice.

You do smart things and stupid things in the thick of a moment.

Life a series of paths. To helping people. To hurting people. To leaving certain places and certain people behind. For better or worse.

Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right.

I'm a storyteller, and it's a storyteller's job to take on other people's voices. To present as real a picture of things as possible. Every storyteller will write a different story.

Characters are supposed to have understandable motivations. The reader is supposed to be able to relate to them.

That's what it all meant. Be good. Be kind. Do whatever you can to help people. Be the best that you can be. Simple. Obvious. But true.

She didn't need to be someone else. She needed to use her power to make the world a better place.

She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.

You tend to tell yourself that feeling something is always better than feeling nothing.

You are not a coward, and there is nothing wrong with starting over.

Because whether inspiration comes from an actual place or not doesn't matter if you don't choose to do something with it. And if you do choose to do something with it, the stories you create don't matter unless they make ripples in the world.

Stories help me feel complete.

Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad.

There's something absurdly comforting about the notion that we live in a universe of infinite possibilities.

We all love our brothers, in spite of the fact that none of us has a clue what's really in their hearts.

The story is the important thing.

Here's what happens when a guy blows up during your group therapy session that's supposed to make you feel better about people blowing up. The group therapy session is officially cancelled. You do not feel better.

I'm finding out that if you have the ending from the get-go, then you're in good shape. Problem is, I rarely have the ending from the get-go.

A story with a clear ending, happy or sad, is an acceptable story.

Some people can't have babies. It's sad but it's true. Their bodies aren't built for it. Some of those people also can't adopt babies. Just as sad, maybe sadder, and just as true. Their lifestyles aren't built for it. But most people want families. Most people need families.