Teddy Wayne QUOTES

1 " Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all. "

― Teddy Wayne , The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

2 " It’s super-important to have a strong social media presence, and Jane’s always going, When interviewers ask you about your Twitter, say you love reaching out directly to your fans, and I’m like, I don’t even know how to use Twitter or what the password is because you disabled my laptop’s wireless and only let me go on the Internet to do homework research or email Nadine assignments, and she says, I’m doing you a big favor, it’s for nobodies who want to pretend like they’re famous and for self-promoting hacks without PR machines, and adults act like teenagers passing notes and everyone’s IQ drops thirty points on it. "

― Teddy Wayne , The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

3 " Sometimes the only way to start over in life is to burn down the house. "

― Teddy Wayne , Apartment

4 " Remember this, I commanded myself again, though I knew that this memory--like all of them--would lose an essential and truthful quality over the years. The notion that we repress or redact significant chunks of the past strikes me as a dramatic contrivence for storytellers more than a realistic psychological phenonomen, but that we alter or retrospection in subtle ways, to airbrush out unpalatable flemishes here and there, much as we sweep detritus in our present consciousness under the carpet: that seems quite natural. "

― Teddy Wayne , Apartment

5 " Sometimes I wonder if, having the ability to time travel back to certain moments in which our fear or impulsiveness got the best of us and resulted in an unsatisfying outcome, we would actually alter our behavior knowing what we know now, or if we would end up repeating exactly what we did the first time, surrendering to those elemental directives, incapable of deviating from some preordained essence of our character. "

― Teddy Wayne , Loner

6 " I’m an extroverted introvert at best. But everyone says that, right? They want to claim the best parts of each—that they can be charming when they need to, but they really prefer solitude. No one’s ever, like, ‘I have the neediness of an extrovert and the poor social skills of the introvert.’ Sorry "

― Teddy Wayne , Loner

7 " There were no people or cars out; if not for the houses around me, I could have been in a forest. Something about the moment--likely my adolescent conviction that my pain had more beauty, more holiness, than the average person's, that it was exceptional and exquisite--compelled me to tell myself to memorialize it. I suppose it is this kind of egotistical delusion that drives some people to make art. "

― Teddy Wayne , Apartment

8 " HE WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS BEST "

― Teddy Wayne

9 " All hopes I had of a roommate who would help upgrade me to a higher social stratum snagged on the gleaming barnacles of Steven's orthodontia. "

― Teddy Wayne , Loner

10 " Until that point, I'd assumed that nearly everyone bore a certain amount of loneliness within them, it was just the human condition of being trapped inside one mind and body for a lifetime, so that whatever isolation I felt was normal and universal; but hearing Seger's lyrics, rather than identifying with someone else's expression of similar feelings, as art was supposed to do for its audience, I thought that there was a different quality to mine, it was singular and peculiar and grotesque, a lonely flavor of loneliness--but maybe, I also reasoned, that's what true loneliness was, its Tolstoyan uniqueness made it so, and the only way out was to define yours to someone else and hope they still accepted you, and the only lonelier fate than rejection was never exposing yourself to its possibility. "

― Teddy Wayne , Apartment

11 " --her hand grazed the center of my back, testing to see if I was awake; the tentative gesture of someone in a foreign stranger's room, in the middle of the night...at an inflection point that could conceivably determine whether two people might someday get married or never see each other again, both of us lonely and longing for shelter.
I pretended to be asleep. "

― Teddy Wayne , Apartment

12 " Order belongs to the wealthy," he said, and we both laughed because that was all we could afford to do. "

― Teddy Wayne , Apartment

13 " How dispensable are most people in our lives, collections of matter filling empty space until they’re recycled. "

― Teddy Wayne , Loner

14 " When you’re acting angry, it’s hard to also be scared. "

― Teddy Wayne , The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

15 " A celeb is only a celeb if you remember them. It’s like we disappear if no one is paying any attention. We think we have all the power, but it’s actually the public who decides, just like with politicians. Except it’s really the record and movie execs and probably a few guys in a room in Washington, D.C., who control the purse strings and give the public the next number-one Billboard singer and movie star and president, but they make it seem like the public chose it so no one gets too upset. "

― Teddy Wayne , The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

16 " to be on the fringes of an already marginalized subculture is simply lonely. "

― Teddy Wayne , Apartment

17 " We were studious but not collectively brilliant enough to be nerds, nor sufficiently specialized to be geeks. "

― Teddy Wayne , Loner

18 " You were here because it was compulsory, not to make friends. You had no interest in present company, didn’t need to manufacture an affable smile and hope some generous soul took pity on you. No, you weren’t one of us at all. You were in a tribe of your own. "

― Teddy Wayne , Loner

19 " If no one’s paying attention to you, at least you can be yourself, do your own thing. "

― Teddy Wayne , Loner

20 " We overestimate destiny’s role in our lives, selectively applying it to favorable outcomes (...) But the law of averages—which, when advantageous to us, we prefer to call fate, when disadvantageous we decry as bad luck, and when neutral we ignore—will occasionally smile upon us when we most need it. "

― Teddy Wayne , Loner

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