...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.” — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.” — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“See, Mr. Nak'll be talking about how anger comes creeping up, hoping you're not paying attention so it can trick you into… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't,… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“Remember the first time your dad tried to teach you to drive on ice? How when the car started to slide you… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“I don't know why I always felt the need to educate my friends when I learned some new bit of information most… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“These kids up here, they act like the toughest kids in in the world, just like me, but this is the first… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“It's easy to look back and say if things had been perfect, I could have accommodated all of those things into my… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
“The distances across that atom, in relative measure, are the same as the distances across the universe. So there is no big and no… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
“Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are". She looked back out the window. "It was… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
“See, Mr. Nak'll be talking about how anger comes creeping up, hoping you're not paying attention so it can trick you into something really… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
“A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.” — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
“Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site where the plane went… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
