Gabriel Smith > Quotes

“When someone dies, it becomes a competition to be in charge of the history of that person. People want their memory to be the real one.”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“I chose this one. This is the one I care about.”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“When I woke up again it was light. I found two of my girlfriend’s old T-shirts in a wardrobe. She must have left them when visiting a long time ago. One was white, and said Russian assets in black across the top of the chest. The other was blue and said brat. It smelled of her, just about. Or I hoped it did.”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“Memory is irrevocably wrapped in loss. I worry about the future sometimes. Everything is photographed. I can watch television shows from 50 years ago on the computer. It’s as if by losing nothing, we’re losing loss, and forgetting how to remember.”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“All the girls in the world leave their stomachs forever at the top of their first wooden roller coaster. And I think often of the son grinning and looking straight ahead and that's what love is. The most cruel, the funniest joke in the world.”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat