Byron Lane > Quotes

“Travel is a wonderful alternative to suicide”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“My attorney told me there are a bunch of questions I’m not supposed to ask you, so I’d like to go ahead and get those out of the way,” she says.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“You are your best teacher”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Beautiful people, they're never really alone.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Life only exists in your mind. Everything you see, everything you hear, all of it, it goes through your eyes and ears and is processed by your mind, and the mind can lie, can be sick, can get it wrong”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“They're all little things until one of them kills you.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Waiting for what? For me?” Kathi asks, smiling kindly. “I’m not a leader. I’m a follower. It might look like I’m a leader because I’m in movies, but I’m just a follower who’s in movies and I happen to have other followers following me but we’re just all confused followers following followers following followers and it’s a clusterfuck of following. There’s a line of people following me and thinking I’m leading them and I’m just, like, trying to find somewhere to take a nap.” “Oh,”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Take your broken heart and go make art. - Carrie Fisher”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Therapista says hating others is hating yourself.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Is it crazy that we can live with the mystery of God?” she asks. “Or the mystery of Wi-Fi or something? But the first time we don’t understand another human being, the mystery of another human being, it’s just too much to overcome?”
― Byron Lane, Big Gay Wedding

“Therapista says judging others is really judging yourself.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“We're all victims of what others think of us, of our identity based on our employer. It doesn't matter who you really are, it's how you're perceived.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Miss Iva ushers the kids off the bus as Farmer Mom watches. She looks at their shoes as they step onto her farm. Shoes don’t lie. Sneakers that light up are telling. Flip-flops hide nothing. Boots hide a lot. Name brands stick out. Knockoffs fall apart. The wear of the sole says much of its owner. None of the kids at Mader Elementary ever have new shoes. But the depth of remaining sole, the degree to which the sock is actually buffered from the ground, is often the measure of poverty these kids exist within.”
― Byron Lane, Big Gay Wedding

“on humid mornings, when the night temperatures play their cruel, cool game, the clouds come down to hug swamps and sinners alike.”
― Byron Lane, Big Gay Wedding

“The pine needles, the rough grass, it all feels different now. Maybe he’s simply older, maybe his feet are softer, or maybe the grounds are more dangerous than they used to be.”
― Byron Lane, Big Gay Wedding

“I’m not exactly suicidal-suicidal—I don’t have a plan or anything—but suicide has always had a spot on my vision board. With my shitty news job and pathetic, lonely life, I admit I think of suicide like some people think of going back to college.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“I see a million lives, where it seems a short time ago, there was barely even one”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Therapista says a wonderful, healthy life doesn’t include a requirement to be constantly entertained. She says what we really want is peace of mind, peace in being. Maybe another word for boredom is peace.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“It’s not what someone does or says that causes your suffering, it’s what you’re thinking and believing about what someone does or says that’s the cause of all suffering.”
― Byron Lane, Big Gay Wedding

“And the more he chews in my ear, the less hunger I have for answers, for continuing. “Gotta jet!” he barks mercifully. “Have a blessed day!” he shouts, a toilet flushing in the background as he hangs up. What the fuck is he doing? God, I hate him.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“She helped my relationship with Reid grow stronger with lessons—If you want to really know someone, travel with them. Reid is the one I now sit beside on planes. But the seat he occupies will always be hers, really. She literally paid for it. I used all the airline miles I racked up with her to buy the tickets.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored