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Kids of Appetite QUOTES

Kids of Appetite QUOTES

1 " We are, each of us, hopeless hopers. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

2 " Music was more than subjective; it was erratic. It was the ship on the horizon that one sailor saw, the other sailor didn’t. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

3 " Memories are as infinite as the horizon. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

4 " They lived and they laughed and they saw it was good. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

5 " ...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

6 " The thing about uniquely pretty girls is that their prettiness cares nothing for time or place. It cannot be rescheduled or relocated. They are pretty wherever they go, whenever they get there. It can be quite distracting. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

7 " In this land the only explosions were those of laughter, the only breaking was of bread, and the only shootings we're of stars across the clear Brazzaville sky "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

8 " My heart was so full, I thought it might explode into the ether, creating some bizarre new solar system whose inhabitants ate only love, drank only hope, and breathed only joy. What a substantial galaxy that would be. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

9 " We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

10 " I think Mad saw in books what I saw in art: the weightless beauty of the universe. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

11 " I used to think love was bound by numbers: first kisses, second dances, infinite heartbreaks. I used to think numbers outlasted the love itself, surviving in the dark corners of the demolished heart. I used to think love was heavy and hard.
I don’t think those things anymore. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

12 " I ask, “You ever hear that a person has to go through fire to become who they’re meant to be?”
Mendes sips her coffee, nods. “Sure.”
“I’ve always wanted to be strong, Miss Mendes, I just wish there wasn’t so much fire. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

13 " Till we’re old-new. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

14 " Sinking into fiction: the if-only of if-onlys. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

15 " They understood that lasting pain could only be dealt at the root. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

16 " Sometimes you tell the truth, and things are better for it. Other times truth hangs in the air like a fog, clouding the pretty lies. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

17 " The longer you hold onto an apology, the harder it is to give. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

18 " I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn’t Moebius at all, but other people’s inability to define me by anything else. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

19 " Scroll, scroll, scroll, play—now, to disappear completely into an entirely other world.
In that world: every faction left me alone.
In that world: I was not one seven-billionth of the planet’s population.
In that world: I was one-fourth of the planet’s population: it was Dad, the sopranos, and me.
In that world: we soared through the sky and clouds, above it all, not a care in the world, the most miraculous of gaggles, catching the soul of those rare, lovely heart-thinkers.
In that world: my wing was mended. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite

20 " Quiet observers tend to be loud thinkers. "

― David Arnold , Kids of Appetite