Michael Nye > Quotes

“No one will remember this now, but when he was like this - playful and smart, joy in his voice and smile - Carson Bly was luminous.”
― Michael Nye, All the Castles Burned

“I couldn't explain when exactly I noticed that my parents were living separate lives. Late in my freshman year, my history class watched a videotape of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the different coverage of the event provided on each network. I thought then about my parents. They seemed like that - separate worlds that were linked mostly by a name and divided by something solid, something like a mass of concrete, brick, and wire.”
― Michael Nye, All the Castles Burned

“Years later, in college, I stumbled across the term blue blood for the first time and instantly thought of my classmates at Rockcastle who fit this description. Much the way the eye gravitates unbidden toward symmetry and beauty, I wasn't consciously aware of the allure of these boys - the ones who everyone liked but nobody knew, the ones from mysteriously wealthy families, the ones who were brilliantly smart and amazingly athletic but refused to give maximum effort in either their studies or sports. They walked with their shoulders back. Their haircuts were perfect, teeth immaculate, ties dimpled, blazers bespoke to the exact measurements of their shoulders and lean arms, their strides confident and relaxed, as if the whole world already belonged to them. In some way, it did.”
― Michael Nye, All the Castles Burned

“There's nothing behind his friendliness, is there?”
― Michael Nye, All the Castles Burned