Aaron Starmer > Quotes

“If you name things, then you treat them better.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“The more time you spend with someone, the more you realize they’re not perfect. Everyone comes from a different place with different problems.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“He’s not a bad guy, deep down,” I said.
My dad slipped the key into the door. “Deep down, no one is. But you make choices.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“To be continued is a terrible thing, I know. But life is to be continued. You want to be continued as long as possible.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Do you want to be saved?” I asked.
Keri cocked an eyebrow. “Like Jesus?”
“Like Lancelot.”
“I hang my hair out the window every night, waiting for some dude to climb up.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“People see what they want to see.”
― aaron starmer, The Riverman

“I was coming to realize that if you don't look for something, then you rarely find it.”
― Aaron Starmer, Spontaneous

“We were weirdos, Fiona and I. Creative minds like ours were the minds of aliens. And the soul-suckers, the plagiarists, the malicious people like Charlie? They were sapping us. It was our mission to get away from them.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“And as long as the world spins on, we can still dance. No matter who we are, we can always dance.”
― Aaron Starmer, Spontaneous

“It’s in those moments of admitting and accepting your own terribleness that you realize other people can be terrible too. And if they can be terrible too, then maybe they can be vulnerable too, caring too, and all the things that you are and hope to be.”
― Aaron Starmer, Spontaneous

“People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Kilgore here will keep the record straight.”
“Kilgore?”
“The tape recorder. I name things. If you name things, then you treat them better.” Fiona motioned with her chin to a poster tacked to the opposite wall. “Does she have a name?”
“She” was a bikini-clad model spraying a Lamborghini with a garden hose and, no, she didn’t—at least, not one I knew. I lowered my eyes.
“We’ll call her Prudence, then,” Fiona said. “Now whenever you wake up, you can say, ‘Good morning, Prudence, how’s tricks? Still in the car washing game, I see.’”
“‘How’s tricks’?”
“‘How’s things,’” Fiona explained. “Slang from the good ol’ days. I learned it from a kid in a newsie cap.”
“A newsie cap?”
“We’re getting ahead of ourselves.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“Mornings were good. Cold mornings, rainy ones. It didn't matter. They were new beginnings.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Riverman, Riverman, blood to ice.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“War will change people.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“And do you know what love is? It's when you try to picture your life without someone and you can't.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“He reached his hands toward the door and I figured what the hell. I’d never been in a silo before, and while that’s not exactly bucket-list worthy, it’s something to do when you’re with a boy who intrigues you, scares you, and turns you on in equal measure.”
― Aaron Starmer, Spontaneous

“Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they’re not true, they end up turning people into who they are.”
― Aaron Starmer, Spontaneous

“I avoid writing until I can't avoid it anymore. Until writing comes knocking at my door like a friend I've neglected.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“I suppose everyone is a daydreamer, but I was better at it than most.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Riverman

“It won’t surprise you to hear that I’m a skeptical person. I don’t even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.”
― Aaron Starmer, Spontaneous

“A lot of people say no matter what, but how many people actually experience no matter what? No matter what will fill up your head with a real mess.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Sometimes I don't feel like writing at all...It seems so selfish, writing.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Some people can't have babies. It's sad but it's true. Their bodies aren't built for it. Some of those people also can't adopt babies. Just as sad, maybe sadder, and just as true. Their lifestyles aren't built for it. But most people want families. Most people need families.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“To the ones who feel like it could all come apart at any moment . . .
and to the ones who comfort us and keep us together”
― Aaron Starmer, Spontaneous

“Then your job is to be a sister...All you have to do is this: Listen. Have patience. And love.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Making efforts was not exactly my forte. I always had great ideas, of course. I would have been perfect for a think tank. Think tanks are a thing, right? Organizations where people sit around and come up with solutions to the world’s problems? I would have been a shoo-in for one of those. However, if do-tanks are also a thing—as in, organizations that actually do shit—then you would have had to count me out. On account of, well, laziness.”
― Aaron Starmer, Spontaneous

“Stories help me feel complete.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Life a series of paths. To helping people. To hurting people. To leaving certain places and certain people behind. For better or worse.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III