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A.S. King Quotes | Quotes said by A.S. King

  • A.S. King Quote #1

    --he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.


  • A.S. King Quote #2

    After I lie there for a while, I realize that Dad isn't every going to do anything but be there to drive us home from the airport. And cook. And if I want something bigger to change, it's up to me. I'm scared shitless, yes. I'm doubtful, yes. But I'm angry. Angry that I am doing this because Dad can't. But then I sniff breakfast, and I know that Dad is doing what he can.

  • A.S. King Quote #3

    All those people who are chained here thinking that their reputations matter and this little shit matters are so freaking shortsighted. Dude, what matters is that you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.

  • A.S. King Quote #4

    And really–I would rather suck truck fumes than deal with this sort of shit forever. Mom says that Nader is a loser who will grow up to be a loser and that I'll understand when I'm forty. But I want to understand now.

  • A.S. King Quote #5

    By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3.

    I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

  • A.S. King Quote #6

    Cancer doesn’t give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.

  • A.S. King Quote #7

    Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)

  • A.S. King Quote #8

    I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

  • A.S. King Quote #9

    I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care.

  • A.S. King Quote #10

    I sit on my bed and think about Nader McMillan and wonder what I’m going to do. Ignore him. Stand up to him. Avoid him. Be “tough.” I think of the stuff Dad has said over the years. How he finally gave up suggesting things. Why are you asking me this? I never figured out what to do about my own bullies. How am I supposed to know what to do with yours?

  • A.S. King Quote #11

    I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.

  • A.S. King Quote #12

    I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

  • A.S. King Quote #13

    I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water?

  • A.S. King Quote #14

    Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

  • A.S. King Quote #15

    It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?

  • A.S. King Quote #16

    Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

  • A.S. King Quote #17

    Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?

  • A.S. King Quote #18

    maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.

  • A.S. King Quote #19

    My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.

  • A.S. King Quote #20

    No one has proved to me that my husband isn’t still alive somewhere in Southeast Asia. So, as far as I’m concerned, if even one man is alive, we own him more than this – than presuming him dead for the sake of tidying paperwork.

  • A.S. King Quote #21

    Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.

  • A.S. King Quote #22

    Oh. I get it now. God had Nader beat my ass and my mom leave my dad just so Jodi could learn how to chop onions and use a propane grill. Great. Awesome.

  • A.S. King Quote #23

    School’s important at the moment.
    Unsexiest statement ever.

  • A.S. King Quote #24

    She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

  • A.S. King Quote #25

    She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.

  • A.S. King Quote #26

    She talks about how she can't exercise because of the ailments-a bad back, sore knees, breathing difficulties-all caused by her weight gain.

  • A.S. King Quote #27

    Some of you have it ingrained in you. You weren't born with it. No baby has hate for anything. We were all babies once, right? This little guy doesn't care what country you were born in or what religion you might practice or how much you weigh or who you might love.

  • A.S. King Quote #28

    Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.

  • A.S. King Quote #29

    Sure, Mom.
    They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.

  • A.S. King Quote #30

    The boys on the front had magazines with pinups, and they talked about how one day they would score women like that, but they’re kids. They don’t know what love is. Here they learn what hate is, and I am so sad that they might never know love because hate came first. Maybe they will miss out on having a woman like you, and I feel sorry for them.

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