20 Quotes by Nick Burd

Dade Kincaid is not afraid of the things of which the world is made.

I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.

Distance is meaningless. No one’s that far away unless they choose to be.

Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn’t die.

Love. People threw that word around like carzy.

Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they’ll do with it once they have it.

I was vaguely worried about how they would cope with wandering the desert of adulthood without the other’s hand to hold, but then I remembered that they never appeared to give each other that much comfort in the first place, or at least if they had, those days were buried so far in the past that it was hard to consider them a meaningful part of their life.

Getting older isn’t always about having fun,” he said. “In fact, in many ways it’s about being bored. It’s good if you can find a way to be entertained by your boredom.

Leave home. Fail marvelously, and succeed even better. Kick your feet up and wonder when you will be back. Stay out late. Make telephone calls from unfamiliar street corners. When your mother’s voice comes from far away and asks where you are, squint down the road and tell her you aren’t sure. Make uncertainty your home. Put the mat out for yourself. Look at your watch and think of how you’re almost home.