Kristen D. Randle > Quotes

“Listen very hard and follow your heart. Your heart is good. It's your brain that gets you into trouble.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“Every person defines reality in his own way. And every person figures that anybody who doesn't agree with him has got to be irrational.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“There comes a time, when you have to realize that you're not responsible for the whole world.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“People allow themselves to be defeated”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“...it depends on whose reality you're using for rules. You just have to remember that, and then you can see that nothing should be taken absolutely seriously. Personally, I always like to use my own reality as a standard.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“So every person sets up his own rules, and then uses them to judge everybody else. You just have to realize that.There is no real normal. You have to just decide what you believe. And stay open to new ideas. For the time being I am using my own concept of reality as a guide." Ginny to Caulder and Micheal”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“The only power he has is what you give him." Ginny to Michael”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“I forgot all about him and lost myself in the story.That's what I love about films and good books- you can climb right into them and be there. I just hate it when I'm doing that, and then somebody butts in and messes with my concentration.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“This is home. This is where we are. This is the place we store our love. You just have to be content to be in your own skin, that's all". Charlie to Ginny”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“What the mind believes the body will often make reality." Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“You are what you believe you are.We make images in our minds of what will be based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of." Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“Trust is weird,” my mother said. “People give it too easily, most of the time. Because somebody is attractive, they expect him to be good or honest. Or like pushy salesmen—somebody who carefully makes you feel like you’re emotionally obligated to trust them. Like you’re the rude one if you don’t. Trust is really something that needs to be earned. Hard earned. If somebody every says, ‘Don’t you trust me?’ Just say, “No, as a matter of fact.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“Never, never make the mistake of thinking you’re the only alien on the planet.
But that’s exactly the way I did feel – different desks, different schedule, halls and halls and halls that all looked the same to me. Everybody else knew their way around. I might as well have been a million light years from home.
And lost.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“The picture made me heartsick.

What could it be like, shut up inside with everything you feel – never having the relief of expression, never sharing anything or releasing anything or trying it out on somebody else? Never asking questions? Only yourself to talk to. Only yourself to listen. Never to be understood.

Understood.

Not to be loved for what you are. Never to be known.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“The thing about me is – essentially, I’m a coward.

I am. I can’t stand weird stuff, anything that’s not normal. […]

I’m a coward, and I’ve faced it, and I’ve learn to accept it. And I’m okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.

I don’t think my parents know this about me. […]

But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“So naturally, I caught myself making up personalities for him - you know, the way you do with pets and cute boys and famous people. What’s that called? Anthropomorphism. You do it so that you feel like you can relate personally to whatever it is – your dog, or God or whatever. You do that so you can care about things, and so that life at least appears to make sense. And maybe you do it so you can feel like something cares about you.
The dangerous thing about doing that, Paul told me one time, is what you end up caring about isn’t necessarily what’s really there – just what you’ve decided is there.
Which may be very far from the truth. So you could very easily end up depending on a lie. Or a dream.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“Always," he said. "Whatever I become. Wherever I go. There will always—be this.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“I was thinking about his hands on me. Nobody had ever treated me like that. Not ever. But now they had. And how was I ever going to forget it? I would never. I would never.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“Education is one of the Grand Christianson Obsessions. They’ve been whole years my mother’s kept us home for intensive private study. As a result of that, Paul will perform the first brain transplant, James will someday build a bridge across the Atlantic Ocean, Charlie – who is an actual musical genius – will probably end up writing the Great American Symphony, and I – I know a little bit about a lot of things.
I can tell you the chemical composition of the stuff your stick in your hair; how long it would take you, at just under the speed of light, to get to Alpha Centauri – and how old your body would be when you finally got there; the middle name of the third president of the United States; the amount of the present budget deficit; the author of the Brothers Karamazov, and how many feet there are in a line of trochaic heptameter. The Little Girl Who Had to Know Why, Paul used to call me. But even my mother couldn’t reconcile me and math.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“There is a difference,” I said stiffly, “between being naive and being innocent.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“He laughed, looking down into his empty cup. “Decent people don’t expect that kind of twistedness.” He put the cup down on the floor. “And if they ever did suspect it, they’d just blame themselves for thinking too mean. You should trust your disquiet the next time. That’s what it’s there for. A man like that gets where he is by seeming. And then he makes you feel obligated to him. It’s an old trick.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“Which made me laugh, of course. If you ever want to get truly hysterical, just get really, really scared, and then have somebody say something funny. You get caught between the laugh and the sob, and it’s hard to find your way out.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“But Sam only grinned at her and said, “Now, don’t you worry about a thing. I promise—I’ll hold your hand tomorrow.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“Then we were quiet. Quiet isn’t easy. Especially with virtual strangers. They say that nature hates a vacuum, and so it’s kind of natural to want to fill up a human silence with words—any kind of lame words. But there was such a feeling of space around us that my first self-conscious word died long before I ever felt it on my tongue.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“Hally: – […] See, a smart woman tends to act on your typical eighteen-year-old male like instant kryptonite. But, not to worry – mother tells me something mystical happens at graduation and suddenly male people who never pulled a grade above a C in their lives automatically become smarter than anything that wears a skirt. Maybe after that happens, we can date who we want.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Only Alien on the Planet

“It’s not easy to love someone, but really, really not want anything of what they are to rub off on you.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“You coming?” he asked her, leaning in through the door. And then he finally really looked at me. He came to a complete halt—not just his body, but his energy. His eyebrows went right up. “Oh,” he said. I sort of flicked my hem at him, assuming what I fondly considered an enigmatic look. “This okay?” I asked. “Oh,” he said again, stepping inside the house. The screen door hit him when it closed. “Yeah. Yeah, that works.” It kind of looked like he was beginning to sweat.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener

“I miss you. You don’t know how much I miss you. You don’t know how my heart sinks inside me when I think how far away you are. But then, maybe you know that feeling. I hope you do. No, I wouldn’t wish that on you. But then, yes I would . . .. Forgive me for missing you that much.”
― Kristen D. Randle, The Gardener