The B-Side Diaries
Brian Joyce
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.”
“You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.”
“The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.”
“Society gets by from the help of its citizens.”
“Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.”
“I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.”
“I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.”
“Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.”
“What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?”
“That night, he laid in his bed thinking about all the possibilities. They came like waves in his mind. At first they came slow, then gradually built up speed, cresting into full on dreams, until finally, they broke onto the shore with all of their reality. First dreams, then nightmares.”
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Book Keywords:
contemporary-fiction, young-adult-fiction, death-and-dying, punk-rock, indie-music
