The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
Shaun David Hutchinson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“How do you move on from something like that?" How do you deal with losing all the people you love?" "You don't, she says. "Not like anyone expects you to." Grandma Brawely signs and rests the frame on the bed. 'Life goes on with or without you, and that's just the reality of it. You never move on, you just keep moving forward.”
“They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope.”
“Sex is biological. Kissing is art.”
“I held on to the hope that one day I would grow up and have all the answers, just like my parents. As I look over at Arnold and then at Father Mike, I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of life's many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars.”
“Only someone who cares could fake not caring so well.”
“The world looks different when you're spinning. Colors run together in the most amazing ways, Everything bleeds into everything else, and you get this idea that maybe there are no differences between any of us. That if everyone everywhere spun, we'd all see that we're connected,”
“The past is a cold place. No one deserves to be trapped there, no matter how terrible you believe your sins to be.”
“My mom loved me no matter what I did. [...] When I really screwed up, she'd tell me that she loved me but that she didn't like me very much at that moment. [...] I know that God or Fate or whatever is out there loves me, but I don't think he likes me very much.”
“Knowing leads to caring.”
“Maybe hell is seeing the lost loved painted over the faces of the strangers we meet.”
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