Stephen Christian > Quotes

“If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“honestly i don't understand the rousing of romance all that well. i used to believe in this thing called fate, or destiny. a romantic romeo and juliet, monet and veronica, etc. but now i feel jaded, maybe agnostic to the idea.
but choice used to seem so unromantic, as if some mystic force was not behind the meeting of 2 beautiful individuals. but now i think choice is the greater of the two simply for this fact: by choosing someone you are saying that out of all the people in the entire world i have decided that i want you apart of my life in perpetuum, for the rest of my life, and no one else.
no haphazard circumstance, no chance meetings where distant planets align. it's simply two rational individuals who make a choice and an effort to remain together.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“I don't want to find someone I can live with, I just want to find someone that I can't live without.”
― stephen christian

“Life is but a fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.”
― Stephen Christian

“Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.”
― stephen christian

“We have become who we think we need to be and not who we want to be.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“its amazing how we are the composite of everyone we have ever met. it appears to me as of late that we are interwoven with people.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“but my favorite part of the used bookstore is the fact that the books are used. i love to read a book that someone else has previously owned and underlined all their favorite passages. if they have written in the columns the book is worth double its weight, its like not only do you read what the author is saying but what the other reader is feeling.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“i am reminded of a song that would not make it on the radio in the timeframe of his current state of unrest. it was by a man named louis armstrong, who did not know the same respect and freedoms as his musical counterparts today. instead of writing about the familiarities that surrounded him, like oppression and racism, he sang a song called "(what) a wonderful world.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“He said 'i love you' once in a while but it was like 'love ya' or sincerely yours at the end of a letter. Always stated, but never meant.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“i am a noncomformist, just like everyone else.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“he must think i am a complete moron, so i might as well just shut my mouth like i do, that way i look introspective and quasi deep when in all reality i am thinking about the frozen burrito i had last night and how it compared to the taco bell burrito i had the night before that; wondering which is better nutritiously speaking.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known

“i've come to realize that if we dictate our thoughts we can ordain and direct our lives. there was once a philosopher names descartes who said 'i think therefore i am' he was speaking of existence but i believe he could have expounded on his idea and said 'what i think therefore i am' because it is not what we are but what we believe we are that molds us into reality.”
― stephen christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known