Quotes by Kevin Brockmeier

Kevin Brockmeier

…When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It’s like a fire you’ve tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind…. That’s why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

Fire

Long

Wind

A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place.

Eye

Fall

Song

Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It’s like your sunlight and water – the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.

Littles

Love Is

Water

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on herself.

Dream

Eye

Life

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied–or, for that matter, awarded–because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

Opportunity

Personality

Water

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it’s finished.

Book

Quiet

Trying

I don’t think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite – to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

Confusion

Opposites

Thinking

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

Boys

Kind

Laughing

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

Boys

Might

Sky

I suppose that when you’re growing up, you’re bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you’re not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.

Age

Growing Up

Mind

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Alive

Atmosphere

Believe

Blessing

Book

Boys

Confusion

Creating

Dream

Dwarves

Effort

Eye

Fall

Feelings

Fire

Forget

Good Things

Gratitude

Growing Up

Heart

Joy

Kind

Knowing

Laughing

Life

Like You

Littles

Long

Love Is

Lying

Mean

Memories

Might

Mind

Mistake

Mystery

Nice

One Day

Opportunity

Opposites

Pain

Pearls

People

Personality

Quality

Quiet

Reading

Ready

Realizing

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Quotes by Kevin Brockmeier

Kevin Brockmeier

…When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It’s like a fire you’ve tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind…. That’s why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on herself.

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it’s finished.

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

I suppose that when you’re growing up, you’re bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you’re not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.

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