Susan McMullan > Susan's Quotes

“She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
― Brian Andreas

“You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.”
― Brian Andreas

“Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.”
― Brian Andreas

“Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”
― Brian Andreas

“We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.”
― Brian Andreas

“I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart. ”
― Brian Andreas

“Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life. ”
― Brian Andreas

“Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you. ”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.”
― Brian Andreas

“If you hold on to the handle, she said, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
”
― Brian Andreas

“Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth. ”
― Brian Andreas

“if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that.”
― brian andreas

“They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday. ”
― Brian Andreas

“I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.”
― Brian Andreas, Strange Dreams: Collected Stories & Drawings

“Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over. ”
― Brian Andreas

“Remember to use positive affirmations. I am not a dork is not one of them.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination

and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.”
― Brian Andreas

“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore”
― Brian Andreas

“The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy. ”
― brian andreas

“The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same”-”
― Brian Andreas

“I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.”
― Brian Andreas

“I think my life would be easier, she said,
if I could just get my selves to agree on something.
”
― Brian Andreas, Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“My grandmother used to say life was so much easier when you were simple-minded.
It’s taken me almost my whole life to understand what she meant.”
― Brian Andreas, Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”
― Brian Andreas

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934