Freymann 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

Alyosha, was not at all a fanatic, and, in my view at least, even not at all a mystic. I will give my full opinion beforehand: he was simply an early lover of mankind,1 and if he threw himself into the monastery path, it was only because it alone struck him at the time and presented him, so to speak, with an ideal way out for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness towards the light of love. And this path struck him only because on it at that time he met a remarkable being, in his opinion, our famous monastery elder Zosima, to whom he became attached with all the ardent first love of his unquenchable heart. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

She climbs down and pours half an inch of Jim Beam into a Bengals mug that came free with a tank of gas. Alice would just as soon get her teeth cleaned as watch the Bengals. That's the price of staying around when your heart's not in it, she thinks. You get to be cheerleader for a sport you never chose. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Reading musses up my mind. — Henry Ford

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

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint. — Jojo Moyes

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains. — Robert Zemeckis

The universe had something to do with it, didn't it?" "Sure, but you were the originator of this. — Jeff Brown