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

“Do you remember Aunty Sally’s funeral? Everyone was fighting. About money. I think. And Dad disappeared for fifteen minutes and then came back with a plastic bag full of Creme Eggs. And he handed everyone a Creme Egg. And then nobody could keep fighting because they would look too stupid. Because they were eating Creme Eggs. It would have been too funny. To fight while eating a Creme Egg.”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“I’m sorry”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“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.” “Hm,” I said. “It is ugly”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“memory is irrevocably wrapped in loss.” She looked at me in my eyes. Then she looked away. “I worry about the future”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“Stairs and the elderly are mortal enemies.”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“I want a second opinion.” “You’re ugly”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat

“That’s the main difference between girls and boys: girls’ heartbreaks take the longest time. But boy hearts break all at once.”
― Gabriel Smith, Brat