I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was. — 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 if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of love is weighed by how much better." -Deadline” — 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 that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers… — 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 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 embarrassing or degrading, and before you know it he's got you thinking about your life, or worse, talking about it. He keeps asking what seem like harmless questions, and it almost seems safe to answer them.… — 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 teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share
