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Jordan Sonnenblick QUOTES

Jordan Sonnenblick QUOTES

1 " We're all free to chose some people to love, and then do it. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Notes from the Midnight Driver

2 " Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap! "

― Jordan Sonnenblick

3 " Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

4 " But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , After Ever After

5 " And that’s how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Falling Over Sideways

6 " It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion". "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

7 " Others...are so sure the world is full of nothing but bullies that they become bullies themselves, trying to hit everyone in the world first. But a life of getting in the first shot isn't a life. Not really, anyway. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade

8 " Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

9 " If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

10 " Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey?
Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one? "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

11 " What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King’s cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

12 " Steven, I look like a raccoon.
You do NOT look like a raccoon.
Actually, he looked like some deranged anteater, but I didn’t figure that would be the thing to tell him.
Yes, I do. Oh, no. What if I stay this way forever?
You’re not going to stay that way forever, Jeffy. People get black eyes all the time. If they never got better, the streets would be crowded with raccoon people. Soon the raccoon people would find each other and breed.
I was on a roll here.
The preschools would fill up with strange ring-eyed children. Soon the raccoons would be taking over our streets, stealing from our garbage cans, leaving eerie tails of Dinty Moore beef stew cams in their wakes. Gangs of them would haunt the malls, buying up all the black-and-gray-striped sportswear. THE RIVERS WOULD RISE! THE VALLEYS WOULD RUN WITH…
Steven you’re joking, right? "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

13 " Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , After Ever After

14 " Who’s that?
That’s the King.
Who’s he?
The Duke.
Who’s she?
The Princess.
What do they call you?
The Count.
What does that make me?
Umm…how about the Peasant?
And the name stuck. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

15 " And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

16 " I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

17 " Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Zen and the Art of Faking It

18 " This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o’ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so I’d get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hippos’ heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

19 " Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister, the freaking MAILMAN--I don't need it from you, too. All I ask is that you promise me one thing.'
'What?'
'Just water the plants while I'm gone, all right?'
'You don't have plants, Tad.'
'I know. I just always wanted to say that. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , After Ever After

20 " I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge. "

― Jordan Sonnenblick , Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie