“If it's impossible to understand how I could kick a weeping, torn-in-half cog that was gushing something that looked like tapioca pudding and whale semen on my nice shiny space suit, then you probably never kicked a car for getting a flat tire, or slapped a television remote when the batteries were getting weak, in which case you'll never understand what it means or meant to be a human.” LifePhilosophyHumorFunnyTechnologyComedyHumanMachinesRobotsRabbit Robot Author:Andrew Smith
“And maybe that's the whole point, after all - that everyone of us who existed spent all those limitless days over the thousands of centuries we were here just trying to figure out what it meant to be us. The mousetrap trigger is this precise point: Pour the word us into the coding of a human, and we immediately discount as inferior or useless all the not-us things in the universe. Are you one of us?” LifePhilosophyDeathUniverseHumanUsGroupRabbit Robot Author:Andrew Smith
“It's still home, Cager, and there's something about home, no matter how untidy we've left it.” PeopleLifeHumansHomeEarthHouseFamilyMessyMother EarthRabbit Robot Author:Andrew Smith
“Nonsense. You aren’t alive to begin with,” I pointed out. “Suck it up and make the best of it, Milo. The future is bright, I assure you.” “We come into existence, and we float through space, doomed, until we all die horribly. No reason to live at all.” Milo the busboy wept uncontrollably. He probably knew more than I did, but who can say?” LifeDeathExistenceCryFutureSadDepressedWeepRabbit Robot Author:Andrew Smith
“What kind of world did our fathers abandon us to?” WorldLifeKidsEarthFamilyGrowing UpParentsTeenagersFathersRabbit Robot Author:Andrew Smith
“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?” LifeHigh SchoolStand Off Author:Andrew Smith
“And you can't see around corners. so you just have to deal with it, and try to stay afloat. And things get tough. And you're supposed to grow up. And it's all a bunch of bullshit. Sorry.” LifeToughConfessionBullshitLetterGrow UpWingerAndrew SmithAfloat Author:Andrew Smith
“I know it's kind of ridiculous, but I realize now how wrong that old pervert Mr. Wellins is. Almost nothing at all is ever about sex, unless you never grow up, that is. It's about love, and maybe not having it. What an old, delusional idiot he is. But what do I know? I'm just fourteen.” LoveLifeYoungSexMeaningIdiotTeenFourteenWingerAndrew Smith Author:Andrew Smith