The Great American Whatever

Tim Federle

Top 10 Best Quotes

“We take everything out to Geoff's car and I'm eating a peach in the front seat and it's dripping everywhere and, you see, this is the problem with fruit. It only seems portable and convenient. Turns out you need a hazmat suit and six towels to eat a peach.”

“Can you pick me up on Washington Road in Mount Lebo, actually? I got here and them some kids stole my bike." "Quinn, your life story is starting to turn into a documentary that people would walk out of because it's both too sad and too slow.”

“There's maybe nothing nicer than somebody just coming straight out and showing you they like you.”

“It's a good moment, which is all you can count on or hope for, I think. Tiny little good moments that you catch like a firefly, and just life fireflies, you have to release them, because the whole point is that they're tiny and little and need to be with other fireflies. They aren't a pet. They aren't yours to keep. They're just moments. They're just fireflies.”

“I don't consider myself to be precious, necessarily, but give me air-conditioning or give me death.”

“But you should see the sky tonight. Screw your astrology apps. Screw your games. Look up sometime. There is a whole wing of positive psychology--my therapist told me--that says the greatest way to affect your outlook on life is to consider what you already have more that what you don't have. And so I might not have a cell phone on me, or a sister at home, or a Dad at all, or a future, but holy shit I have the sky.”

“Who was that?" "Nobody," I say to Mom, trying not to actually float by her. "Carly's new boyfriend." Oh, never mind: I didn't use up all my lies tonight. or maybe it's past midnight, and the lie meter has clicked over to tomorrow morning. More as this story develops.”

“That’s actually the most confusing part about being alive without knowing the end of your own hero’s journey. You never know if it’s time to go home or head into battle. You never know if you’ve already faced your biggest monster.”

“Neither one of them being confident enough to share that news with you because you are, in fact, the monster of this picture. Godzilla got to be the title role, but, my God, he was still the monster. Still the antagonist. Still the wickedest. That is me. The creature who destroys villages and has to be tiptoed around.”

“In Pittsburgh, time is just endless.”

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