Garret Freymann-Weyr Quotes & Sayings

I'd love it if the first time I spent the night with a girl it was because she was tired," James says. "I'd love it if it were you. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

What else is a poem about?
The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with words, but you can't just write 'I feel sad.' I mean, you can, but it's not poetry ... I think it has to be experienced instead of studied. You step into it. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

Still I think about him more than I don't. I'm I'm careful, I think about him all the time. What would it take to return to the ease of feeling safe and appreciated? The way I did with him. It would take, I decide, being 20. Better to think about my dead sister than a man whose kiss I will remember forever. Even if he vanishes as completely as Rebecca has. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

The thing of it was that the girls in my class who date boys do hardly anything else. Girls who I used to think were just boring I now think stupid beyond belief. I call them A-Girls and it is not a compliment. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

Not that there's anything wrong with geeky," Link says before Dad has a chance to. Geeky is one of Dad's favorite words, and I listen with glee to my brother's imitation of our father: "Geeky people often have that which is most valuable in this life." Link pauses here for effect, so that James and I can join in, shouting Dad's favorite phrase, "A mind with its own heartbeat. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

And yet there's one question whose answer I have thought out, and it suddenly comes to mind ... 'Stay with me. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

Being the great love doesn't mean being the love who lasts. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

Geeky people often have ... a mind with its own heartbeat. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

Girls who kiss boys, girls who date them, girls who call them on the phone ... that's all they do. There are other things I want to do. — Garret Freymann-Weyr

In all my life I've never felt as right and certain as when I'm with him. — Garret Freymann-Weyr