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1. "And then it's always that one word that makes you so different and puts you outside the overlap of everyone else; and that word is so fucking big and loud, it's the only thing anyone ever hears when your name is spoken. And whenever that happens to us, all the other words that make us the same disappear in its shadow." ~ Andrew Smith
2. "Henry believed that Marbury was a world out of balance. He needs to take a closer look at this one." ~ Andrew Smith
3. "Well, if I'm going to get beat up for being queer, at least I'd like to know one time what it feels like to be kissed.""Um. I guess you deserve that. You know. Everyone deserves to not feel alone." ~ Andrew Smith
4. "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." ~ Andrew Smith
5. "You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you." ~ Andrew Smith
6. "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." ~ Andrew Smith
7. "Stupid people should never read books." ~ Andrew Smith
8. "They were both so beautiful, and their sound, as we said them to each other above the music, made our chests fill up with something electric and buzzing, like love and magic." ~ Andrew Smith
9. "It was warm, and outside the sound of insects in the night was electric.The music sounded better than anything I'd ever heard.I had never been so happy in my life.I played with the little silver medal against my bare chest.I wrote poetry while we sat there like that in the dark and talked about our favorite poems and books and laughed and smoked." ~ Andrew Smith
10. "History does show that nothing means a hell of a lot more than nothing when teenagers talk. In this case, Robby knew it meant that I did not want to talk about it, so he left me alone.Robby Brees was such a good friend." ~ Andrew Smith
11. "Do you think I'm queer, Rob?" I asked."I don't care if you're queer," Robby said. "Queer is just a word. Like orange. I know who you are. There's no one word for that." ~ Andrew Smith
12. "I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed.This is history, and it is also the truth." ~ Andrew Smith
13. "Hungry Jack's real name was Charles R. Hoofard.He was born in Indianapolis in 1950.In 1950, Harry S. Truman was president of the United States.Harry Truman, as far as I can tell, also never took a shit in his life.In 1950, the same year that a boy named Charles R. Hoofard was born in Indianapolis, President Harry S. Truman sent military assistance to the French. They were trying to maintain their French Catholic colony in Vietnam. That military aid would grow and blossom to the point that a boy with wanderlust from Indiana named Charles R. Hoofard ultimately took time out from fucking whatever he wanted to fuck to participate in the killing of an entire village of women, elderly people, and children.History is full of shit like that." ~ Andrew Smith
14. "To me, hearing that those girls gave my brother Eric a blow job sounded very nice.History shows that all boys consider blow job to be a nice-sounding set of words.I thought a blow job was putting your face in front of an air conditioner, which is something all nine-year-old boys love to do, even though Eric did not look like he had been cooled off very much." ~ Andrew Smith
15. "Robby called me Porcupine because of how I wore my hair. I didn't mind. Everyone else called me Austin.Austin Szerba.It is Polish." ~ Andrew Smith
16. "Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in the road you build." ~ Andrew Smith
17. "Here is what the end of the world looks like:It looks like a child running out into the road, eyes focused only on some destination ahead - the future, which is on the other side - and the child fails to notice the speeding truck that is there, on that same road, in the present.This is what the end of the world looks like.All roads cross here." ~ Andrew Smith
18. "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." ~ Andrew Smith
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." ~ Andrew Smith
20. "He was a little guy, a former winger too, and he was a transplant from England who could talk the most civilized-sounding shit you would ever hear, and he could cuss you out with the most vicious obscenities and" ~ Andrew Smith
21. "Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone." ~ Andrew Smith
22. "When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the people swirl around him, enraptured by the simple yet miraculous fact they they were there and alive in that moment, and so was he." ~ Andrew Smith
23. "Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it." ~ Andrew Smith
24. "You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times." ~ Andrew Smith
25. "I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it, the outside, but there was all kinds of other stuff going on, too? All the time. Underneath. But we just don't see it, even if we're part of it? Even if we're in it? And what if you had a chance to see a different layer, like flipping a channel or something? Would you want to look? Even if what you saw looked like hell? Or worse?" ~ Andrew Smith
26. "But when I was quiet...that made words too. The same words that make horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love." ~ Andrew Smith
27. "I said a silent prayer. Actually, silent is probably the only type of prayer a guy should attempt when his head's in a toilet." ~ Andrew Smith
28. "Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means." ~ Andrew Smith
29. "I pictured the first time we saw the girl, breezing past us in that Lincoln, blond hair whirling around her, her glasses tipped down, her smile, the stroke of her fingers. The teasing.Simon tumbled the meteorite around in the sweat of his hand. I wondered what it would be like to look down at the earth, to fall, to burn brilliantly in the air like the image of the girl who passed by, kicking back dust like cosmic ash, and could she see that, now; was she up there above us?I wondered.We closed our eyes." ~ Andrew Smith
30. "Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract – like breathing, but you could never fill your lungs up with the same air twice." ~ Andrew Smith

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