“Remember the first time your dad tried to teach you to drive on ice? How when the car started to slide you had to turn into the side while every nerve in your body said to turn the other way?… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
...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 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 each other… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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 something really… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
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 Image
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book. — 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
“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 Image
