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1 " All good books are about everything, abbreviated. "
― Andrew Smith , Grasshopper Jungle
2 " I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will. "
3 " Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex. "
4 " Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no. "
5 " History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men. "
6 " It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words. "
― Andrew Smith , 100 Sideways Miles
7 " I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming. "
8 " Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second. "
9 " We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule.Boys are not allowed to love each other.Then we painted a bison on the wall. "
10 " 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. "
11 " You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you. "
12 " History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul. "
13 " Mind the gap, Jack "
― Andrew Smith , Passenger (The Marbury Lens, #2)
14 " There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again. "
15 " I drive at night.I blow things up.I have anotia.And long hair.Now go away,Mother. "
― Andrew Smith , Stick
16 " Over a hundred years ago, we learned in a stupid little place that used to be called Vietnam that wars are absolutely useless for trying to change people. Who the fuck ever thought you could go to war to change people, as opposed to just obliterating them? Dumb as fuck. The only good think about wars is starting them. Because you sure as fuck can't win 'em anymore. "
― Andrew Smith , Rabbit & Robot
17 " 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. "
18 " History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception. "
19 " 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. "
20 " Robby Brees was such a gifted theologian. "
― Andrew Smith
