Josh Sundquist > Quotes

“People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.”
― Josh Sundquist, Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain

“Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“I kiss [her] even though I know that if you kiss a girl before you are married to her you might get AIDS.”
― Josh Sundquist, Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain

“When you're faced with a significantly life-altering negative situation you can't control, you grasp at the little things you can control. The little opportunities where you can make choices for yourself.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“That's the thing about human beings: if we have a crush on someone, that person's every behavior attracts us even more. But if we don't like that person, the very same behavior will annoy us.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“After all, truth is not always a virtue when it is pursued for its own sake or, worse, simply to make its teller feel morally superior. That's the problem with those who let the rules of religion overshadow its spirit -- which is, of course, love. And grace. In other words, there are times when telling an outright lie may be the most loving thing a person can do.”
― Josh Sundquist, Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain

“Side benefit of dating me: free motivational speeches. It's like friends with benefits where the benefits are inspirational.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“Like everyone in the history of the world who has had a crush on his or her best friend, I was too scared to tell her, because if I did I might lose her completely. And the sharp bite of losing her completely would be far worse than the one-sided romantic arrangement we had going.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“You know what friendship means? It means sharing the burden. You didn't have to carry it all by yourself.”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“It was not the shape of my body, as it turned out, but my insecurities about that shape that had kept me single.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“Lean on others long enough, and eventually you’ll fall.”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“Ani DiFranco’s songs, as it turns out, are best described as guitar picking played as background music while Ani, an angry, dreadlocked feminist lesbian, spouts diatribes against men. The music created that perfect mood of politically charged man-hating that I always go for on a first date. Ladies, if you’re looking to start a date off right, you can’t go wrong with Ani.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True story

“It's bigger than a painting, for one thing. It's infinite, in a sense. A sunrise stretches across the whole sky, and behind it is the entire galaxy and the rest of the universe.”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“I t was a well-known fact among Christian homeschoolers that public
schools were bastions of gangs, drugs, teen pregnancy, rap music, pop culture, secular humanism, witchcraft, and body piercings.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“In other words, there are times when telling an outright lie may be the most loving thing a person can do. So I smile. As if I’ve just realized for the first time, thanks to your insight, Dad, that my race today was fantastic. As if I am proud of my thirty-fourth-place”
― Josh Sundquist, Just Don't Fall: A Hilariously True Story of Childhood, Cancer, Amputation, Romantic Yearning, Truth, and Olympic Greatness

“Eyesight is asserting itself as king over my other senses. It is enacting a coup d'etat against hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. And I can already tell it's going to be a bloody revolution.”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“For all the attention race gets, for all the wars that have been fought over it, all the atrocities committed and hatred based on differences in skin tone over the centuries of human history, I honestly would have expected something...more. The shape of his face is essentially the same as others I've seen. Basic features-mouth, eyes, ears, nose. All there. What's the fuss about?”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“To paraphrase Elie Wiesel, in relationships, the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference. having no feelings at all. Not caring either way. Hate, at least, requires a foundation of emotional involvement with the relationship.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“It was so unfair! A pop quiz...with no advance warning! Public school was a rip-off! I was going to fail out and not get into college and end up destitute and living on the streets.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“I was attracted to Cecily without ever having seen her clearly with my eyes. Because I know her. I know what she’s like inside. I know how she expresses herself and the way she loves to take photos and watch sunrises, and that’s what I’m attracted to.”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“But I never feel completely there. Because in the front of my mind, right behind my eyes in fact, is the uncertainty of my future”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“A lot of people want their first kiss to be special. I just wanted mine to be during this lifetime . . . I was twenty years old, for crying out loud, and I'd still never kissed anyone.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True story

“What do girls like to talk about? Makeup? Glitter? I don't really know.”
― josh sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“I wanted my life to count. I wanted my dreams to come true.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“...but in case you ever start feeling attracted to me, you should know that for whatever reason, society wouldn't say I'm beautiful? Because that's all it is, right? Society or the media or whoever says people should look a certain way, and the more you deviate from that, the less beautiful you are.”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“That's the thing about life: Just because we don't get the answers we're hoping for doesn't mean they aren't answers nonetheless.”
― Josh Sundquist, We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

“Do I have a responsibility to tell you all my flaws?” she snaps. “Should I have also told you that my closet is a mess? That I broke my mom’s vase when I was five years old and never told her? If you put all your flaws on display right up front, no one will ever like you.”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight

“finish. As if I am satisfied with my performance. As if”
― Josh Sundquist, Just Don't Fall: A Hilariously True Story of Childhood, Cancer, Amputation, Romantic Yearning, Truth, and Olympic Greatness

“Ich spüre den Gurt ihrer Kamera, die selbst jetzt bei der Party und in diesem Kleid über ihrer Schulter hängt. Das liebe ich an Cecily. Allzeit bereit, Schönheit festzuhalten.”
― Josh Sundquist, Love and First Sight