Ben Brooks > Quotes

“Sometimes I think of atoms as tiny people who are extremely scared and hold hands with each other a lot. I imagine that my body is made of tiny, scared people, and they pick up mugs and books, which are made of other tiny, scared people. And when you sex someone it's just lots of tiny, scared people holding hands.
I think about the tiny people that are me and I feel less alone.
I'm an army of tiny people, trying their best.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“I think charity is like putting a plaster on a man with no skin.”
― Ben Brooks, Grow Up

“I think the best way to escape your head isn’t to think about things that aren’t real, it’s to think about things that are and then imagine them happening to people who aren’t you.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“La sinceridad es como una piñata. Una piñata enorme, estridente y en forma de burro que todo el mundo golpea con las manos con la esperanza de romperla para que chorree pequeños fragmentos de algo mejor que lo que tiene.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“Quiero seguirla. Quiero seguirla hasta el borde del planeta, entrelazar los brazos con los suyos saltar al infinito. Quizá si muero a su lado pueda ascender a un planeta mejor. Ella se merece más que esto. Una persona como ella no puede pertenecer a un lugar donde existen cosas tan patéticas como la pasta de dientes, los zapatos ortopédicos y los caniches diminutos.”
― Ben Brooks

“You just need to remember to check you’ve got your limbs and your torso and your face. You’re alive. You’ll keep being alive for a quite a while longer. Everything that will happen to you has already happened to me and to your mum and to your granddad. And we all survived. For now. There are no new problems, only new ways of solving them.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“I think everyone wants to be hugged at all times, but everyone is scared so no one does. Everyone has to sit around being unhugged. There should be people who are paid by the government to sit on public transport hugging people. The people should be called Hugabees.

Head Hugabee.

Hugabee of the Year.

Hugabee Headquarters.

No, that's retarded. Everyone would sue the Hugabees and they'd get upset and disappear.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“Because Time has been around for a long time, it often gets bored. In order to briefly relieve its boredom, Time enjoys constructing massively unlikely series of events. If the events are of the romantic kind, they're called Fate, and if they are of the negative kind, we call them Unfortunate Coincidence.”
― Ben Brooks, Grow Up

“Following the emergence of leaked information regarding Alice Calloway, Etgar Allison has suffered considerable loss motivation, energy and interest in his usual pursuits (Wikipedia, YouTube, Kurt Vonnegut). He has been seen to spend long periods of time staring at inanimate objects and will occasionally stop whatever he is doing to lie face down on the floor and sing "One Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton (a song he has described as "all that's left"). In an official statement given earlier today, he described bed as "better that sex" and Alice Calloway as "the horriblest bitch I know".”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“I am Holden Caulfield, only less reckless, and more attractive.”
― Ben Brooks

“I will always never love you.”
― Ben Brooks

“Crear vínculos irrompibles gracias a que compartimos la sensación de ser un bosque despoblado.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“A la estación se la comen las casas adosadas y luego los campos se comen a las casas, primero vacíos y después salpicados de ovejas. La gente se quita el abrigo y enciende los portátiles y se oye un suspiro colectivo. Al otro lado del pasillo una mujer abre una bolsa de patatas con queso y cebolla. Parpadea y se mete cinco en la boca. Se hacen pedazos y suenan como los parásitos de la radio.”
― Ben Brooks

“8:03-8:10 a.m.: Brush teeth, go to toilet, make a conscious effort to produce reeking faeces.”
― Ben Brooks, Grow Up

“Sé que creceremos y nos separaremos y seremos adultos y esto se convertirá en un pequeño capítulo de nuestras vidas, olvidado excepto en determinados días, bajo cierta luz; entonces este momento se elevará como un globo aerostático desde un bosque infinito.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“Premises Ten & Fourteen:
The culture as a whole & most of its members are insane. We are individually & collectively uncultured to hate life, hate the natural world, hate the wild, hate animals, hate women, hate children, hate our bodies, hate & fear our emotions, hate ourselves. If we did not hate the world, we could not allow it to be destroyed before our eyes. If we did not hate ourselves, we could not allow our homes- & our bodies- to be poisoned.”
― Ben Brooks, An Island of Fifty (Novel

“Todo cae donde la gravedad quiere que caiga porque está esperando para fundirse de nuevo con la tierra y volver en forma de perros y oro y flores. Lo aprendimos en el colegio. A menos que apliques electricidad rápidamente en las tetas, una persona muerta está muerta.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“Mamá dijo en una ocasión que no conoces el amor hasta que cumples los treinta, porque no se puede ver la luz sin oscuridad. Yo le dije que, en ausencia de una profunda oscuridad, la luz más débil se vuelve oscura. Por eso todo el mundo tiene problemas.”
― Ben Brooks, Hurra

“Maybe people do like wine. It's not as nice as just eating the grapes, but it's okay.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“Alla gente piacciono gli abbracci. Secondo me tutti vorrebbero sempre farsi abbracciare, ma hanno paura e quindi nessuno lo fa. Ci tocca starcene lì privi di abbracci.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“Me imagino el futuro como un oso gigante que arrasa la ciudad, reduce a polvo edificios y personas y los pisotea para devolverlos al planeta del que salieron. Pero no puede destrozar las otras partes que nos hacer ser lo que somos. Las partes como montañas rusas o cervezas en la cama o libros de rusos muertos. Esas partes se elevan como orbes por la atmósfera, liberadas de sus cuerpos aburridos y de la constante necesidad de mear y cagar, y comer y dormir. Nueve millones de años en el futuro, seguiremos existiendo en lejanas nubes estelares, separados por años luz pero en el mismo lugar de siempre.”
― Ben Brooks, Hurra

“I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

“-¿Sabes qué sería lo mejor? -dice.
-¿Qué?
-Poder volver atrás en el tiempo y crecer contigo.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito