43 Quotes by Andrea Portes

I can’t help but wonder... if it’s such a big deal for a middle-aged white guy to feel important... What happens when he doesn’t?

I know a lot of people think that whole God thing is a joke but I just get a feeling he’s up there somewhere.

I don’t know how to act around anybody.

I know they say that’s the way the cookie crumbles and all. But you can’t help but wonder why there’s any cookie-crumbling going on in the first place.

Out west everything has its own space. Every little ramshackle cabin, shack, hut sits perched atop its own little piece of destiny with room to breathe, room to live, room to die. You’ll see them, the dead ones, sitting by the side of the road like some faded gray and rotting mystery, thinking about the good ol days before trains and cars and wanting more.

But if I can keep my mind on these pages I don’t have to care. I can make this all just go away. Poof. I can stay in this book and then this book gets to be real and everything else gets to be fake and who cares anyway.

I cared what everybody thought more than what I thought. Or more than my heart thought. And that makes me an idiot.

You could waste your whole life worrying, you know that?

There’s no marker on the entrance to this entire complex, or on many of the buildings, but if there was I would call this one “Super Secret Spy Swimming Complex”, or SSSSC, for short.