Quotes from Brian Andreas

The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.

Every day he stood in front of the Bank of America. You're trapped in the belly of a big pink pig, he said. We ignored him. We had work to do.

I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious.

frustrated because it's going too fast to see but if you could see it, it wouldn't make any sense because you'd be looking too close

Someone asked them to be quiet, so it's just a matter of a time before all hell breaks loose.

One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly what the world needed everywhere I went.

What makes you an adult? he said & I said it's mainly a height requirement & the willingness to keep quiet when people say stupid things. —Adult Club

There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.

Rules for making the world: 1. Stand up & do the thing you see needs doing. 2. That's it. (If it was easy, we'd be having a different conversation.) —Action Plan

I like to live extravagantly in my mind, she said, but in real life I keep to the edges because I bruise easily. —Fringe Dweller

I've never been good with current events, she told us. I always keep getting bogged down with simple things, like 'why are we here?

I should probably give up pretending I'm going to be somebody someday, he said, but a rich fantasy life is one of my best qualities. —Fantasy Life

Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way. —Best Thing

I don't think of it as avoiding, he said. I think of it as another opportunity to practice ignoring things that bug me. —Steady Practice

He kept a piece of algae behind his ear to remind him of his roots. A million years ago every place was a little place by the sea, he would say & my mind would go blank & I would swim through the day without a care in the world & it all seemed so familiar that I knew I would go back someday to my own little place by the sea.

The secret is not in your hand or your eye or your voice, my aunt told me once. The secret is in your heart. Of course, she said, knowing that doesn't make it any easier. —Secret Heart

He is self-conscious because everyone knows he has wings but they've never seen him fly. Now & then there will be a feather in odd places or maybe a footprint to show he was there. All in all, he thinks it's nobody else's business what he does with his free time.

Our mailman was a dance teacher at night & I would watch him sometimes to see if he would deliver mail differently than the others. I expected to see him leap over bushes with his toes pointing like arrows, but all he ever did was walk.

It's not surrendering to the Universe, he told me, if all you're doing is sitting around waiting for it to turn out like you hope. —Partial Surrender

What could go wrong? I said & she shook her head. I thought you had more imagination than that, she said. —Fertile Imagination

This is a pretty deep hole for putting away all the ugly things in the world. For a long time it was empty, but it started filling up really fast the last couple of years.

He taught me to run high on my toes. I will always remember his words: run proud & remember you are alive.

How's the job hunt going? I said. She sighed. I can't help laughing when people do stupid things, she said, so basically I'm unemployable.

God invents musical theatre. Satan voluntarily opts for Hell.