79 Quotes by Kevin Wilson

Maybe that’s what children were, a desperate need that opened you up even if you didn’t want it.

From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world.

When I come back, we’ll pretend like this never happened. We’ll head to Wyoming and get back to what we do best.′ Annie had no idea what it was that they did best; the two of them together seemed below average in all categories.

I got out these little workbooks from one of the closets, all wrapped in plastic from some educational company for weirdos who believed the end of the world was coming and wouldn’t let their kids go to a normal school.

I was pacing through the house, brushing my hair, rubbing moisturizer on my face, clipping my toenails, all these little things to make myself presentable, and, each time, I’d look at myself again in the mirror and feel like not a single thing had changed.

My mom had once told me that being a mother was made up of “regret and then forgetting about that regret sometimes.

Maybe raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world and hoping that they loved them, too.