Andrew Smith Quotes

“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks and a trip to Sweden.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“The same words that make the horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.”
― Andrew Smith

“History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“And you can't see around corners. so you just have to deal with it, and try to stay afloat.
And things get tough.
And you're supposed to grow up.
And it's all a bunch of bullshit.
Sorry.”
― Andrew Smith

“Readers of history may decide that joking while two guys are driving around through a town that has recently been slaughtered by six-foot-tall praying mantis beasts with shark-tooth-studded arms is in poor taste.
It is.
But that is exactly what real boys have always done when confronted with the brutal aftermath of warfare.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.”

~ Christa Desir”
― Christa Desir

“I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance floor.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“Robby Brees was such a gifted theologian.”
― Andrew Smith

“Mind the gap, Jack”
― andrew smith, Passenger

“I know it's kind of ridiculous, but I realize now how wrong that old pervert Mr. Wellins is. Almost nothing at all is ever about sex, unless you never grow up, that is.
It's about love, and maybe not having it.
What an old, delusional idiot he is.
But what do I know?
I'm just fourteen.”
― Andrew Smith

“That day, getting through my world was like trying to swim in a pool of warm mayonnaise while carrying two bowling balls.”
― Andrew Smith

“Roll. Tap. Tap. Tap”
― Andrew Smith