Brian Andreas citations

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“Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth.”

“A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.”

“In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love
And there may be many things we forget in the days to come,

But this will not be one of them.”

“For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.”

“The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same”

“Single Mind:
If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway.”

“I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.”

“Living Memory
I carry you with me into the world,
into the smell of rain
& the words that dance between people
& for me, it will always be this way,
walking in the light,
remembering being alive together”

“I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing.”

“In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination

and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.”

“This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore”

“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.”

“Remember to use positive affirmations. I am not a dork is not one of them.”

“The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it.”

“Falling into Place:
deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.”

“Favorite Places:
I'm not that good at being a tourist because I'm always looking at the way the light shines in your hair or the way your dress opens to the wind & my favorite places in the world are places filled with you.”

“I didn't listen to her because she was my mother & wouldn't know anything until I was much older.”

“Thousand Moments:
I still remember the day the world took you back & there was never time to thank you for the thousand scattered moments you left behind to watch us while we slept.”

“One of Us:
Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin & they will say, What have you done with your life? & though there are many moments I think I will remember, in the end, I will be proud to say, I was one of us.”

“What I'm mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don't see much future in it.”

“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”

“feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just
to be life going absolutely perfectly”

“Trapped mainly by wanting things to be exactly as they are, only better”

“I think my life would be easier, she said,
if I could just get my selves to agree on something.”

“She learned to love him before he thought it was even possible, so he didn't have a chance to hide & mess it up & while it was a little scary at times, mainly he could not even imagine the world without her there.”

“I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.”

“Quiet Pride:
There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my daughter, though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.”

“Partners:
Tied together by stuff too difficult to explain to someone new”

“When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it the moon. The real name never caught on.”