Brian Asman > Quotes

“No one’s better at seeking out silver linings than the profoundly doomed.”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House

“If you don’t care for the message, disparage the delivery.”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House

“The kid stepped into the office, skittish like a baby deer who’d just been offered a salt lick by a pervert in an off-white panel van.”
― Brian Asman, Return of the Living Elves

“In Damien’s eyes, the dividing line betwixt adult and child was simply how self-serious one was.”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House

“Ghosts didn’t exist, and if they did they certainly didn’t concern themselves with bored college dropouts who couldn’t accept the fact they’d accidentally become homemakers.”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House

“But after the pain’s gone, what then? Pain gives life meaning. Purpose. Without it, you just have to exist. And how fucked up is that?”
― Brian Asman, Our Black Hearts Beat as One

“the biggest lie he’d believed as a child was that adults knew what they were doing. They absolutely did not. In Damien’s eyes, the dividing line betwixt adult and child was simply how self-serious one was.  Children thought the moon was made of cheese; adults believed in more complex but equally silly things, like government. Everything was one big joke.”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House

“And finally little Russell, tucked safe and sound in his racecar bed, a stocking cap on his head, because IMAGERY IS GOD MOTHERFUCKER.”
― Brian Asman, Return of the Living Elves

“Children thought the moon was made of cheese; adults believed in more complex but equally silly things, like government. Everything was one big joke.”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House

“Because sometimes you need to know someone else’s heart can break just like yours, and it’s never okay, but it is survivable.”
― Brian Asman, Our Black Hearts Beat as One

“The costume blood was a problem—none of it smelled enough like actual blood for his taste—but they really did make some astoundingly realistic prosthetics these days, and Damien figured he could cross the blood bridge when they got there. After all, practically everyone he knew was full of the stuff. They”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House

“the biggest lie he’d believed as a child was that adults knew what they were doing.”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House

“Always smells good, this room,” Jimmy said. “No idea why. Rest of the basement’s like a skunk took a shit in a septic tank. Anyway—”
― Brian Asman, Return of the Living Elves

“the biggest lie he’d believed as a child was that adults knew what they were doing. They absolutely did not.”
― Brian Asman, Man, Fuck This House