Eric Bell > Quotes

“I'd rather have a hard time being myself than an easy time being somebody else.”
― Eric Bell, Alan Cole Is Not a Coward

“Whatever this is, it isn't your fault.
After eight years of being told it's my fault, I guess I needed someone to say the opposite. To let me realize - maybe it's not.”
― Eric Bell, Alan Cole Is Not a Coward

“I'll let you on a little secret - sometimes I think I haven't changed enough yet. Sometimes I look at my friends, so brave and strong, and I see in myself something else. Sometimes I look at my cretpoj, and I don't see the Alan of tomorrow. I see the Alan of yesterday, a yesterday I hoped I'd left behind. That's the thing about change: it's hard - but hopefully it's doable too. So I keep changing. I keep struggling. And maybe eventually, maybe someday, my shaky hands will make a masterpiece.”
― Eric Bell, Alan Cole Doesn't Dance

“(I)f you're going on about changing the world, you need to know what you're doing. Or else you'll change it for the worse.”
― Eric Bell, Alan Cole Doesn't Dance

“But my brother will never let me change the world if I don't stand up to him. IT'll just keep happening, over and over, until there's no art left inside me. It won't ever stop unless I make it stop.”
― Eric Bell, Alan Cole Is Not a Coward