Aaron Starmer Quotes & Sayings

Besides, static isn't so bad to listen to. Beats listening to your thoughts when your thoughts are a scramble of stories and you're having trouble telling what's real and what's a dream and what's a coincidence and what's basically what. — Aaron Starmer

If you don't share your stories with other people. do they even count? If you don't share your stories, do they even need an ending? I know, it's that stupid if a tree falls in the forest sort of question, but I mean it. — Aaron Starmer

War will change people. — Aaron Starmer

I'm a storyteller, and it's a storyteller's job to take on other people's voices. To present as real a picture of things as possible. Every storyteller will write a different story. — Aaron Starmer

If you lose track of time, you lose track of your mind. You don't go crazy necessarily, but your thoughts wander. They go on permanent vacations. — Aaron Starmer

She didn't need to be someone else. She needed to use her power to make the world a better place. — Aaron Starmer

I was coming to realize that if you don't look for something, then you rarely find it. — Aaron Starmer

Characters are supposed to have understandable motivations. The reader is supposed to be able to relate to them. — Aaron Starmer

He's not a bad guy, deep down," I said.
My dad slipped the key into the door. "Deep down, no one is. But you make choices. — Aaron Starmer

But when you're a kid, it's different. You lose something and then there's this hole inside of you and you want to fill that hole, but you don't have the experience or wisdom to do it. So you ask for answers. From the air, from the clouds, from the stars, from anyone who might listen. And when voices finally respond and promise that there's a place where you can get what you want, where your wishes can come true, then you go. You go to that magical place and you stay and you create and you try to heal. You fill that hole. Which can be brave. Which is important. But while you're there, you realize that what you want and what you need are two different things. And that's when you're done with the place, and you leave for good. But leaving for good means you forget the place even existed at all. — Aaron Starmer

That's what it all meant. Be good. Be kind. Do whatever you can to help people. Be the best that you can be.

Simple. Obvious. But true. — Aaron Starmer

A story with a clear ending, happy or sad, is an acceptable story. — Aaron Starmer

She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world. — Aaron Starmer

Her bone-white face lit up like she was at a surprise party. "Hear that, Dwyer? He called me ma'am! Stay forever if you want, big guy. Teach my son a thing or two about manners."
"He's good people," Kyle said. "Always has been."
It was the last thing I wanted to hear at that moment. "I'm not always good," I shot back.
"Ooooo, polite and a bad boy," Gina cooed. "Watch out, ladies. — Aaron Starmer

Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people. — Aaron Starmer

The more time you spend with someone, the more you realize they're not perfect. Everyone comes from a different place with different problems. — Aaron Starmer

Some people can't have babies. It's sad but it's true. Their bodies aren't built for it. Some of those people also can't adopt babies. Just as sad, maybe sadder, and just as true. Their lifestyles aren't built for it. But most people want families. Most people need families. — Aaron Starmer

She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice. — Aaron Starmer

Mornings were good. Cold mornings, rainy ones. It didn't matter. They were new beginnings. — Aaron Starmer

HOPE. It counts for so, so much. — Aaron Starmer

Kilgore here will keep the record straight."
"Kilgore?"
"The tape recorder. I name things. If you name things, then you treat them better." Fiona motioned with her chin to a poster tacked to the opposite wall. "Does she have a name?"
"She" was a bikini-clad model spraying a Lamborghini with a garden hose and, no, she didn't - at least, not one I knew. I lowered my eyes.
"We'll call her Prudence, then," Fiona said. "Now whenever you wake up, you can say, 'Good morning, Prudence, how's tricks? Still in the car washing game, I see.'"
"'How's tricks'?"
"'How's things,'" Fiona explained. "Slang from the good ol' days. I learned it from a kid in a newsie cap."
"A newsie cap?"
"We're getting ahead of ourselves. — Aaron Starmer

I'm finding out that if you have the ending from the get-go, then you're in good shape. Problem is, I rarely have the ending from the get-go. — Aaron Starmer

Stories help me feel complete. — Aaron Starmer

Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right. — Aaron Starmer

The story is the important thing. — Aaron Starmer

We were weirdos, Fiona and I. Creative minds like ours were the minds of aliens. And the soul-suckers, the plagiarists, the malicious people like Charlie? They were sapping us. It was our mission to get away from them. — Aaron Starmer

A lot of people say no matter what, but how many people actually experience no matter what? No matter what will fill up your head with a real mess. — Aaron Starmer

In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists. — Aaron Starmer

We all love our brothers, in spite of the fact that none of us has a clue what's really in their hearts. — Aaron Starmer

You tend to tell yourself that feeling something is always better than feeling nothing. — Aaron Starmer

Life a series of paths. To helping people. To hurting people. To leaving certain places and certain people behind. For better or worse. — Aaron Starmer

To be continued is a terrible thing, I know. But life is to be continued. You want to be continued as long as possible. — Aaron Starmer

Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad. — Aaron Starmer

There's something absurdly comforting about the notion that we live in a universe of infinite possibilities. — Aaron Starmer

You are not a coward, and there is nothing wrong with starting over. — Aaron Starmer

And do you know what love is? It's when you try to picture your life without someone and you can't. — Aaron Starmer

Riverman, Riverman, blood to ice. — Aaron Starmer

Do you want to be saved?" I asked.
Keri cocked an eyebrow. "Like Jesus?"
"Like Lancelot."
"I hang my hair out the window every night, waiting for some dude to climb up. — Aaron Starmer

I am happy with my life how it is for once. And I don't ever want to forget that. That's all that matters to me. — Aaron Starmer

Because whether inspiration comes from an actual place or not doesn't matter if you don't choose to do something with it. And if you do choose to do something with it, the stories you create don't matter unless they make ripples in the world. — Aaron Starmer

And as long as the world spins on, we can still dance. No matter who we are, we can always dance. — Aaron Starmer

If you name things, then you treat them better. — Aaron Starmer

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true. — Aaron Starmer