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Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2) QUOTES

Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2) QUOTES

1 " Well, then, Otter, of course I don’t like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don’t see chickens standing outside of maternity wards waiting to get our babies to make their Bundt cake, do you? "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

2 " I think you are seriously overestimating my dancing abilities. My kind of dancing usually ends up on the Internet, where people watch it so they can stop feeling sorry about their own lives. You know how people say they have two left feet? It's like I have no feet and my stumps are attached to wheels shaped like triangles. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

3 " ... it's not about where you come from. It's about who you are "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

4 " Dammit. I hate it when my crazy is right. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

5 " family is not defined by blood. It’s not always who you’re born to that you’re stuck with. It’s what you want it to be, what you make of it. It’s the people around you who see you at your worst and are not afraid to pick up the pieces when you fall apart. It’s the people who can call you on your bullshit. It’s tough to hear, but if you do hear it, it means that someone gives a damn about you and chances are you should probably listen. It’s the people who look at you each time they see you like they haven’t seen you in years. It’s the people who you fight for. It’s the people you’d lay down your life for. It’s the scariest thing in the world, but, if you let it, it’s also the greatest. If I could have you remember anything from our time together, it would be that it’s not about where you come from. It’s about who you are. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

6 " You can only get knocked down so many times before you start shying away from a raised hand, even if it's extended in kindness. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

7 " 'But it's weird, right? It's like we're a gay bug zapper and all the gays keep flocking to us because they think we're bright and shiny, but all I want to do is electrocute most of them because they annoy the crap out of me with their high-pitched whining.' "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

8 " What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regardless of how full the glass is, it's filled with acid, and you'll burn your face off. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

9 " Creed looks like Santa barfed Christmas presents in his lap (excited and disturbed all at the same time, natch). "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

10 " I sit up straighter and puff out my chest a little bit, unsure why I'm doing so even as I do it. I know when I speak I'll have dropped my voice an octave to make myself seem more manly, and when I shake he hand, my grip will be tight and strong. Stupid, I know, but I'm a guy. It's what we do. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

11 " I told myself that once I was done ripping the seagull's head off, I would turn around and give a speech so saccharine that even Eddie wouldn't be able to console them when I was finished. I would destroy them, and they would drown in an ocean of their tears.

But first the seagull. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

12 " Wait till it’s my turn to tell the story! They’ll be like ‘Bear who? "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

13 " Round 5: Telling him I felt bad about the puppy-shirt thing, I told him
we could go pick out a dog at the pound now that we had a yard for it.
Instead, I took him to the dentist. Winner: Bear “Rock Star” McKenna. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

14 " Wait until you meet the therapist.
That bad?
Let's just say i can't believe he's a real person.
Like Santa Claus?
More like if Santa Claus and Ron Jeremy had a child and then that child had a child with Richard Simmons.
So, like a leprechaun?
Yes, Otter, exactly like a leprechaun.
I'm going to tell him I believe in Santa Claus, just to see what happens.
I dare you. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

15 " Nothing's too fast if it means forever. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

16 " Otter pulls me up to the bar and leans over. “What’s wrong? You stink!”
he shouts.
I glare at him. “I smell fine, you asshole. I used your cologne.”

He rolls his eyes and comes closer, his lips against my ear. I shiver. “I
said, what do you want to drink? "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

17 " Why is everyone being all quiet?" the Kid asks. "Are we having a staring contest? If so, you should have told me because I wasn't quite ready yet. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

18 " My name is Bear. I am a reluctant homosexual (or, at least, I resemble one). My boyfr—er, life partner (gag!), is apparently like a forty-year-old woman, and his biological clock is exploding all over the place, and we don’t know how to turn off the alarm. We need a woman (ha!) to allow us to put our sperm into her so that we can create the miracle that is life! You, as the surrogate, must not be crazy!!!!! "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

19 " He squints at the screen. “So, would you call yourself a… hmmm, that doesn’t sound appropriate… a ‘nasty come hungry bottom dumpster bitch’?”

I wish life was more like cartoons and a piano would fall on him and his teeth would become the piano keys as stars circled his head. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)

20 " If God is real, I think he might be some kind of masochist. I imagine he sits there up on his cloud, long white robes flowing, drinking a forty of Mickey’s and smoking a Winston as he flips me the bird and plans what he’ll do next to piss me off. "

― T.J. Klune , Who We Are (Bear, Otter, and the Kid, #2)