Grasshopper Jungle 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

“There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…”
― Munia Khan

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

“The end of the world was one week old and it was getting out of hand.”
― 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

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

“The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.”
― Andrew Smith

“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

“Good books are always about everything.”
― Andrew Smith