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> [“The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/the-game-had-to-be-played-the-same-way-every-day-or-the-pieces-would/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

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## More by Kevin Brockmeier

> [Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/worry-is-a-mean-faced-dwarf-who-beats-on-your-heart-like-a-kettledrum/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [“If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of this longing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/if-i-could-i-would-work-my-way-backward-paring-away-the-years-i-would/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [“The incident made her remember the story she had heard about the girl who was raised in a room with no horizontal lines. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/the-incident-made-her-remember-the-story-she-had-heard-about-the-girl/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [“Sometimes I remember the way I used to be," she said as we sat across the table from each other, "and I'm surprised nobody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/sometimes-i-remember-the-way-i-used-to-be-she-said-as-we-sat-across/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/a-successful-song-comes-to-sing-itself-inside-the-listener-it-is/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/what-i-wanted-was-to-write-a-memoir-that-was-immersive-rather-than/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/sometimes-they-rose-up-inside-her-these-moments-of-fierce-happiness/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/it-s-like-you-re-born-with-all-these-blessings-only-you-don-t-realize/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [“The street lamps and illuminated signs were all extinguished, and on impulse everybody looked into the sky. The frogs and crickets fell quiet to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/the-street-lamps-and-illuminated-signs-were-all-extinguished-and-on/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/you-have-a-pet-theory-one-you-have-been-turning-over-for-years-that/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/who-was-it-who-said-that-every-virtue-contains-its-corresponding-vice/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/the-books-you-love-best-those-are-the-immensity-of-the-sea/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/the-living-carry-us-inside-them-like-pearls-we-survive-only-so-long/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [“My son was something of a disciple of flying things. On his bedroom wall were posters of fighter planes and wild birds. A model…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/my-son-was-something-of-a-disciple-of-flying-things-on-his-bedroom/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

> [“The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-brockmeier/the-game-had-to-be-played-the-same-way-every-day-or-the-pieces-would/)

[Kevin Brockmeier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-brockmeier/)

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