01UndatedExpired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
03UndatedI began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
04UndatedMan will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interiorAndrew Smith / quote ↗
05UndatedBecause, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
07UndatedHistory chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
08UndatedYou know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you’ll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
09UndatedI was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
10UndatedIt was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
11UndatedI love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
12UndatedWorry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
13UndatedWe made this stupid rule and this stupid rule.Boys are not allowed to love each other.Then we painted a bison on the wall.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
14UndatedReaders of history may decide that joking while two guys are driving around through a town that has recently been slaughtered by six-foot-tall praying mantis beasts with shark-tooth-studded arms is in poor taste.It is.But that is exactly what real boys have always done when confronted with the brutal aftermath of warfare.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
15UndatedWhen I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the people swirl around him, enraptured by the simple yet miraculous fact they they were there and alive in that moment, and so was he.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
16UndatedHad (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
17UndatedWas Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
18UndatedApollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.Andrew Smith / quote ↗
