Brian McGreevy Quotes & Sayings

Like a night when the energy is bloody unsalvageable but the show must et cetera. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or goddamn wish fulfillment. — Brian McGreevy

I am ugly, Uncle. There is no other way to put it. But that does not mean I am without pride, without
joy, without the same entitlement to feel deserving of love from those not obligated by blood to give
it. I may be ugly, but I can hardly imagine a reason to act like it. — Brian McGreevy

A rich man, was one who spent a million. — Brian McGreevy

Hey hey hey," said Roman, "we don't love with our teeth. — Brian McGreevy

If Roman Godfrey was a riddle, Shelley was the epic fornication of mystery and enigma — Brian McGreevy

Write it on the bottom of your shoes for the devil to read. — Brian McGreevy

No good ever came out of possessing a firearm in a Patsy Cline singing mood. — Brian McGreevy

God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong. — Brian McGreevy

The thing about coming back from the dead was that your life went on. — Brian McGreevy

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity. — Brian McGreevy

Godfrey watched helplessly as she crossed the boundary of the property, the lamppost's light extinguishing suddenly as she passed, and continued headlong down the hill; he heard the percussions of her footfalls after she passed from sight, and as those faded the rise of her cry into something horrific and wrathful, a thorn in the paw of the heavens. — Brian McGreevy

It's weird that impossible is even a word. — Brian McGreevy

Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away. — Brian McGreevy

Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it. — Brian McGreevy

She had not been conferred with a practical sense of how one went about this strange and all inverted business of being a girl, where seemingly natural stuff like going on about all the great things you just learned about Siberian tigers on National Geographic was suddenly weird, but totally weird stuff in and of itself like drawing around your eyeball with a pencil became normal, and it impressed to no end that it was a product of meticulous effort that made the twins seem so perfectly and effortlessly feminine. — Brian McGreevy

Roman ignored her and took her ankles and flipped them purposefully, but because of her hands she could not turn all the way and ended up with her legs scissored unintuitively, and suddenly things were different. Ashley had heard girls tell stories of getting into situations and changing their minds as though this made them victims of what happened next, like that was how it worked, that you got so far and it switched off just like that and they were not themselves to blame for being little sluts and cock teases in the first place. But now she understood: it was not like that. Changing your mind was not the thing that happened at all, what changed was your body telling you what was right and what was wrong and before now she had never known the way things can just like that go all wrong. — Brian McGreevy

Of course, minute as its impact may be in our physical universe, the fact of quantum entanglement is this: If one logically inexplicable thing is known to exist, then this permits the existence of all logically inexplicable things. A thing may be of deeper impossibility than another, in the sense that you can be more deeply underwater
but whether you are five feet or five fathoms from the surface you are still all wet. — Brian McGreevy

And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane. — Brian McGreevy

Peter's privatemost circuitry a sudden and confusing crossfiring at how arousing and simultaneously dick-shriveling this apparition was. — Brian McGreevy

And it made me hurt inside of my bones with sadness. Because in a life that is long and well lived there are sorrows and darkest doldrums that cannot be understood by those who live day to day like it could be any other. — Brian McGreevy

Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down. — Brian McGreevy

Dr. Johann Pryce, he said, and there was a certain spurious slickness to his carriage and his smile that brought to mind the rainbow patina of oil on a puddle. — Brian McGreevy

Destiny is no more than the fulfillment of purposive potentialities within us. The human cerebral cortex is a single sheet composed of more neurons than there are stars in the known universe folded like a paper crane to fit in a quart-sized cubbyhole; there is enough potential energy in a single person that if released would equal thirty hydrogen bombs. Destiny is nothing to sneeze at! — Brian McGreevy

That if a thing is defined in contrast that's what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn't be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn't be life. The badness was life, just happening, as essential a part of the good as the good. And what was there to do but to take it as it comes and to hope, to hope constantly and carnally and with no time to lose. — Brian McGreevy

To the eye a shot is only geometry and yardage and wind, but to a still-beating heart pulling a trigger on another living body and watching it fall is to be avoided, it does not give you a good feeling. If you aren't a psychopath or a male. — Brian McGreevy

Knowing before ever seeing it that her ass was like a stationary drop of water on a flower stem — Brian McGreevy

There is no upward limit to the number of times you can make the same mistake. — Brian McGreevy

Essential truths gained by loss in translation. The essence of beauty not perfection, but the doomed aspiration. — Brian McGreevy

If you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying. — Brian McGreevy

Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment. — Brian McGreevy

Wisdom is where the brain meets the heart. — Brian McGreevy

We can't know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we're not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased. Like most things, probably a little of both. — Brian McGreevy

A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job. — Brian McGreevy

Disintegration: literally, the loss of integrity. But if the mind can be described as one's subjective experience of the brain, then what is the self but vagrant fluorescings of neural constellations, individual states of consciousness determined by mercurial configurations of amplitude and alliance? — Brian McGreevy

I have an ugliness it's impossible to love. — Brian McGreevy

He had not actually known what to expect in coming here tonight, much less that it would reveal to him two essential truths of life: that men do become wolves and that if you have the privilege to be witness to such a transformation it is the most natural and right thing you have ever seen. — Brian McGreevy

But she would make it, because maybe he wasn't much of a warrior but if there was one thing that he was cut out for it was an epic and retarded act of love. — Brian McGreevy

There was so much to learn from every place. Or at least something worth watching. Who was in love with their best friend's boy- or girl-friend, who was in love with their best friend, who cut, who starved, who locked themselves in the handicapped bathroom to jerk off or cry, who was addicted to what or raped by whom
it was everywhere, a wonderful world of darkness and desire right under the roaring bleachers, if you had your eye out. — Brian McGreevy

All in all, Peter's love of being Peter was so great that like an overfilled bucket of paint it slopped over even in the smallest moments of his day. — Brian McGreevy

That's the thing with whispers, you know you put a thousand of them together and you get howl. — Brian McGreevy

If a problem can't be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem. — Brian McGreevy

It made his beard a liar. — Brian McGreevy

Every time she used his name it was putting a pat of butter on a slice of botulism. — Brian McGreevy

But there are frogs deadlier than sharks — Brian McGreevy

Tiring because he felt prematurely the weight of carrying how stupidly fucking sad this was for the rest of his days. — Brian McGreevy

Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity. — Brian McGreevy

These fires go out but the coals don't. If this isn't ended it will be just around the corner everyday of his life. And if you don't let a boy become a man, it's no one's fault but your own when you're still wiping his ass when he should be making you grandchildren. — Brian McGreevy

The first step to liberty is respecting the rights of others. — Brian McGreevy