The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea. — Kevin Brockmeier Book Copy Share Image
She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world. — Kevin Brockmeier Heart Copy Share Image
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years. — Kevin Brockmeier Book Copy Share Image
The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us. — Kevin Brockmeier Life Copy Share Image
I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished. — Kevin Brockmeier Book Copy Share Image
“Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. —Italo Calvino” — Kevin Brockmeier Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me. — Kevin Brockmeier Astrology Copy Share Image
Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum. — Kevin Brockmeier Anxiety Copy Share Image
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg… — Kevin Brockmeier Complicated Copy Share Image
There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at… — Kevin Brockmeier Feel Copy Share Image
“Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step?… — Kevin Brockmeier Every step Copy Share Image
“She felt for a moment the child's guilt and panic that she was to blame for something-for finally getting to know him.… — Kevin Brockmeier Children Copy Share Image
“A consensus slowly gathered among us. We had given up something important, we believed: the fire, the vigor, that came with a… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would… — Kevin Brockmeier Change Copy Share Image
“People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the… — Kevin Brockmeier Character Copy Share Image
“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Heart Copy Share Image
I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to… — Kevin Brockmeier Character Copy Share Image
“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to… — Kevin Brockmeier Heart Copy Share Image
What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own… — Kevin Brockmeier Consciousness Copy Share Image
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or,… — Kevin Brockmeier Circumstances Copy Share Image
Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a… — Kevin Brockmeier Alive Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I remember the way I used to be," she said as we sat across the table from each other, "and I'm… — Kevin Brockmeier Respect Copy Share Image
I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in… — Kevin Brockmeier Age Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had lost. Cigarettes. Chewing gum. Strong… — Kevin Brockmeier Chewing gum Copy Share Image
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and… — Kevin Brockmeier Cellular Copy Share Image
“The incident made her remember the story she had heard about the girl who was raised in a room with no horizontal… — Kevin Brockmeier First birthday Copy Share Image
“The street lamps and illuminated signs were all extinguished, and on impulse everybody looked into the sky. The frogs and crickets fell… — Kevin Brockmeier Darkness Copy Share Image
“My son was something of a disciple of flying things. On his bedroom wall were posters of fighter planes and wild birds.… — Kevin Brockmeier Bedroom wall Copy Share Image
“There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Brockmeier Blessing Copy Share Image
“If I could, I would work my way backward, paring away the years. I would reel my life arouond the wheel of… — Kevin Brockmeier Backward Copy Share Image
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always… — Kevin Brockmeier Forget Copy Share Image
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of… — Kevin Brockmeier Begin Copy Share Image
I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second. — Kevin Brockmeier Believe Copy Share Image
I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be… — Kevin Brockmeier Boys Copy Share Image
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to… — Kevin Brockmeier Books Copy Share Image
There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world. — Kevin Brockmeier Alive Copy Share Image
I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry. — Kevin Brockmeier Boys Copy Share Image
“People say they want to die in their own home. But me, I was ready for the hospital. The sterilized sheets, the… — Kevin Brockmeier Computers Copy Share Image
...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a… — Kevin Brockmeier Alive Copy Share Image
