Tyler James Smith > Quotes

“Honestly and authentically being around others is maybe the hardest thing in the world.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“I can hurt too; I can miss people in my own way; I can care about things deeply; I am not a machine or a superhero or a miracle and that is exactly how it should be.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“Are you smiling because you’re an asshole?” I said, just to make sure that wasn’t why.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“It takes a unique combination of angst, caffeine, and months of being told I’m a criminal or a sinner or both, but I am fully capable of deciding I want to smack the shit out of a child who is barely four feet tall.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“What’s a blow job?” Trevor asked, looking at both of us and setting the pumpkin down.

“Um,” I said. Having never dealt with children, I decided to let the seasoned expert handle this one.

“Bryce was talking about them but he didn’t seem to really know either,” Trevor added.
“It’s a … joke,” Faisal said. “Just a joke.”
“Like a gag?”
Faisal opened his mouth to say something but just nodded for a second before saying, “That’s definitely one way of looking at it, yes.”
“I heard a pretty good blow job earlier,” Trevor said.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“My request is to learn from my ghosts: to do something I’m nowhere near 99.999 percent sure will work because sometimes risking the fall is worth it.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“…But the fact is that from that moment on and for every moment to come this is you forever and ever and it will follow you and it will drag you down and you will see it in all of your corners until you are old and gone.”
― Tyler James Smith

“…I know I’m going to have a long life starting in this exact moment like I’m watching the violent birth of my new life as someone who was there when his cousin and best friend got shot in the brain and I’m always going to be that person because how can you possibly hope to change after something like that something where everything changes something where everything you know is just gone and you were directly involved and you know that…”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“It’s a weird feeling, finding yourself missing the shittiest part of your life. Like some stupid part of you misses the incredible low because it was closer to the time before you did something irrevocable. The antithesis of pining for the glory days—pining for rock bottom.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses