Kevin Wilson > Quotes

“I just... you are the most beautiful and wonderful and strangest person I have ever met. You are the most amazing person in the world. And you just have to live long enough to make the rest of the world understand that, okay? You have to stay alive.”
― Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel

“The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.”
― Kevin Wilson

“I loved how expertly bitchy she was; I wanted to study her for a year.”
― Kevin Wilson

“That's the thing with quests, she realized. You had to get back to where you started. And then you had to keep living. The danger of a quest, of getting eaten by a dragon or stabbed by an orc, was tolerable vecause you at least wouldn't have to ride a Greyhound back home, weighed down with all the emotional trauma of what you'd done.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“Now she realized that she had been holding too much of the burden, that, depending on how many half siblings she now had, they had all been carrying more than they needed of their father's legacy, holding him up for so long that it made their father weightless, able to walk on water, to escape, to never be bound to anything if it did not interest him any longer.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“But she also knew that this was the tenderness of wanting a person you care about to avoid this kind of pain. Maybe every single moment of loving someone you helped make was connected to this low-level terror that hurt your heart.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“And so I almost never told anyone what I liked because I was terrified that they would tell me how stupid it was.”
― Kevin Wilson

“I don't know why, with these demon children bursting into flames right in front of me, their bad haircuts remaining intact was the magic that fully amazed me, but that's how it works, I think. The big thing is so ridiculous that you absorb only the smaller miracles.”
― Kevin Wilson

“So when Timothy became this strange little toddler who was, like, fascinated by pocket squares, I said I would never try to curb it. I knew that the world would do that eventually anyway. So I let him be weird. I like it. It makes me happy.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“I knew that whatever I chose would the wrong thing. I knew that until I truly believed that whatever I did was the exact right thing, I'd keep doing the wrong thing.”
― Kevin Wilson , Nothing to See Here

“That's what emotions are, I think, complex and shifting, and yet we think that any deviation from what we're supposed to feel makes us a bad person.”
― Kevin Wilson

“You could expand your horizons as long as you occasionally got to run right back to the only thing you really knew.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“But I also think it's not so bad if you never quite feel right in this world. It's still worth hanging around. You just have to look harder to find the things you love.”
― Kevin Wilson

“From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life, tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it’s hard to summon it when you really need it.”
― Kevin Wilson

“It was not something she cared for, relying on anyone else, hoping she got what she wanted.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“I hadn't given much thought to how I was going to take care of them. originally, I had thought I'd just stand next to them for the whole summer and gently direct them toward good decisions. I thought I'd just sit in a beanbag chair and they'd read magazines next to me.”
― Kevin Wilson

“I'm the grandmother who wears Air Jordans, sweetie. It's fine. I'll be fine.”
― Kevin Wilson

“That was all family had to be, at the most basic level, someone seeing you, even if you didn't know what they saw.”
― Kevin Wilson, Run for the Hills: A Novel

“Maybe raising children was giving you the things you loved most in the world and hoping they loved them, too.”
― Kevin Wilson

“The alley cats from my youth had nothing on this wild, psychotic kid.”
― Kevin Wilson

“I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“But I also think it's not so bad if you never quite feel right in this world. It's still worth hanging around. You just have to look harder to find the things you love.”
― Kevin Wilson

“It didn't hurt exactly, not like I expected-I guess I was beyond that kind of pain-but it also didn't feel like it was a part of my body. It was like this thing I didn't need, but I couldn't get rid of it.”
― Kevin Wilson

“To był ten malutki ognik, a ja zmierzałam się go trzymać i się przy nim ogrzewać i nigdy, przenigdy nie dopuścić do tego żeby zgasł.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“I was smart. I just had a thick layer of stupid that had settled on top of me.”
― Kevin Wilson

“The chaos of our daughter, so lovely and beautiful, I would always be grateful for it, how she required us to keep living, to keep moving forward, just so she didn't leave us in her dust.”
― Kevin Wilson

“Politics is moving money around and making sure that some of it sticks to you.”
― Kevin Wilson

“We'd created meaning where there was none, but, I don't know, isn't that art? Or at least I think is the kind of art that I like, where the obsession of one person envelops other people, transforms them.”
― Kevin Wilson

“But it was a mistake. Even if it worked out, she had made a mistake joining this project. The strangeness of it, and the way everyone worked so hard to pretend that it was perfectly normal, was going to change Izzy in ways that she would not recover from.
But Izzy was used to making mistakes. She was used to living inside it. The key, she knew, was to bend and shape and worry the mistake until it turned into something else, something that would allow her to survive.”
― Kevin Wilson

“The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us”
― Kevin Wilson