“I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around.” Quote by Callan McAuliffe
“I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.” FeelsMindBodyAgeGrowing UpGrowingConversationBoundsYour Body Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.” KindBoysLaughingCry Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I think, or at least I was when it came to the people I cared about.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsGradesQuicknessSeventh Grade Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course.” SometimesMightCoursesMistakePermanentTestedMy Friendship Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.” MightRememberGivenBoysSky Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.” WritingLongSeemsWantedMy OwnEffortConsciousnessGoneMemoirVersionsExpectingSooner Or Later Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.” BelieveReadyGood Things Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.” ThinkingWantedDesireMoralOur LivesOffersJokesOppositesDetailsConfusion Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.” WellsLightGovernmentCarePresidentBillsAgentsHealth CarePresident ObamaSmarterBureaucracyBulbsIrsLight BulbGovernment Bureaucracy Author:Michele Bachmann
“I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely that all I really want is for someone to tell me that my efforts have added up to something - not one of my better qualities, I admit.” PeopleWantShowsEffortQualityExhausted Author:Kevin Brockmeier