J.C. Lillis > Quotes

“Pretentious."
"So? I love pretentious people!"
"Why?"
"They try so hard to be interesting, you don't have to do any work.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“Well, who doesn't love a good mpreg?"
"A what?"
"Sim gets man-pregnant? Gives birth to twins during a tornado?"
"I'll pretend I never heard that."
"Here, I'll read you the wedding one -"
"NO.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“ Status: Naked. On bed. With boy. Systems overheating. Sudden doubts multiplying. Meltdown imminent. ”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“Abel snores pornographically, like a prince sleeping off an orgy.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“I can tell I'm being annoying, the kind of annoying where it feels like I haven't showered for days and everyone should just stay away.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“It’s fandom, Bran. Getting butthurt over nothing is practically a sacrament.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“You can't stay fucked up forever, can you? You need to start putting yourself out there and getting humiliated like the rest of us. Only then will you be a Real Boy”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“God is like junior high, Brandon. Graduate already.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“You've thrown a lot of pennies in ponds," she says. "Haven't you.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“... Brandon's going to talk to a B-O-Y, and -"
"What?"
"That's your assignment tonight. You converse in public with a boy. You've heard of them, right? They're like girls, but with penises?”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“I've never seen a naked torso that wasn't on a cross, at least not so close up. I don't know where to look. His belly button. Belly button. Look at the belly button. ”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“I mean, if no one knows for sure what God's like, then why don't you just believe the people who think he's all rainbows and sunshine and loves you no matter what?”
― j.c. lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“Passion is never pathetic.”
― J.C. Lillis, A&B

“My secret is cool and mysterious like a jagged scar across my chest, and not dull and heavy like I gave up church buy not the angst.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“And when you’re a weird and awkward and paranoid person at all times, CastieCon is the happiest place on the planet.
It’s like, a baseline level of freakiness is expected here, right? So unless you’re disemboweling goats in the vendor hall, no one gives a damn who you are or what you’re doing.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“His eyes trace the droplets branching down my chest.
They stop at my waistband.
“Brandon. Cutie.”
“Yeah.”
“You’re still wearing your boxers.”
“I am.”
“Is there something you need to tell me?”
“No.”
“Are you actually a Ken doll?”
“Nope.”
“Is your dad a secret superhero and you have a bionic penis and you make up this big religious-paranoia back story because it shoots laser beams and has the strength of a bulldozer?”
“Yes.”
“I knew it.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“You can stop waiting, you know,' she says. 'For what?' 'For God to strike you down.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“There’s only one kind of girl I can tolerate being, and it is not the Girl Who Gives it All Up for Love.”
― J.C. Lillis, We Won't Feel a Thing

“I want to make a sweater out of this week and wrap myself up in it until it falls apart. If”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“For crap’s sake: the holy-grail scene of the world’s most ridiculous, implausible ship, and I was holding my breath with the rest of the room.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“Dude, can I have your pickle?”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“What if I die of happiness and then go right to hell?”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“I've always loved Halloween: the one day of the year when you can blatantly dress as your number-one obsession and people will smile instead of snicker.”
― J.C. Lillis, A&B

“Because here’s the thing. We can do a lot in thirty-five days.” He sat on the bed and pulled her down next to him. “I mean, think about books and movies. You can watch a great love story in two hours, right? Or read one in maybe two days? So imagine what we can do with thirty-five. We can celebrate a whole year of holidays. We can lock the door at night and turn the music up and memorize each other. We can taste and smell and touch every single thing we love about this whole town, so we never forget, no matter who we turn into out there.” He hugged her hands tightly with his. “And then when it’s time to leave each other, we’ll go off smiling into the future, and we won’t be distracted by all that ‘when will I find true love’ stuff people always worry about because they don’t know how it feels. Because we’ll already know how it feels. And if neither one of us ever gets another great love story, this one will be enough to last our whole entire lives.”
― J.C. Lillis, We Won't Feel a Thing

“Whatever. I’m used to showy silent treatments. I have an older sister. “Since”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“Entering the ball is like crashing on a planet where no one cares how you dress or how you dance or who you love.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“I want you back because... I like being with you more than anyone else. And because when I make you laugh I feel like the coolest person on the planet. And because we get each other in like, every possible way, and you don't know that's a huge deal until you grow up and meet a fuckload of people and you realize how rare that is.”
― J.C. Lillis, A&B

“Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.”
― J.C. Lillis, A&B

“Help me be ready, I say to him. Or her. If you exist, please help. If”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart