quotes by Francisco X. Stork

"Aurora once told me that she knew I was different within the first few months after I was born, because as a baby, I never cried. She had no way of knowning if I was hungry or if my stomach hurt until I was old enough to point and talk. Even when I fell and it was obvious that I had heard myself, I did not cry. When I didn't get my way, I would go off by myself and sulk or have a tantrum. But I never cried. Later, when I was eleven and Abba died, I didn't cry. When Joseph, my best friend at St. Elizabeth's, died, I didn't cry. Maybe I don't feel what others feel. I have no way of knowing. But I do feel. It's just that what I feel does not elicit tears. What I feel when others cry is more like a dry, empty aloneness, like I'm the only person left in the world.

So it is very strange to feel my eyes well with tears as I read Jasmine's list. "
— Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo In The Real World)

"My brain is like a water faucet that I can turn on or off. Only now there is no off and the water of thoughts just flows."
— Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo In The Real World)

"'Be in the world but not of the world.' The words are from Jesus. But I have not the slightest idea how to accomplish that or even if it's possible. The world will always poke you in the chest with its index finger."
— Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo In The Real World)

"'Boy, you really break things down, don't you?'

'Some say it is an illness.'

'We should all be so ill.'"
— Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo In The Real World)

"Actually, I am asking myself if conversations with friends always feel like this--two minds bound together by their focus on the same subject."
— Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo In The Real World)

"I wanted you to have an image of this place in your mind because you need to know that it exists. People think a place like this is perfect. Living a simple life close to the land and all that. It isn't. There are mean people and alcoholics and medical bills to pay and depressed people galore. But some of us feel okay here, you know, despite all that."
— Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo In The Real World)

"The "real stuff" is what he calls the music that is piped in through the speaker in the machine. The music that comes from inside my head is not considered real."
— Francisco X. Stork (Marcelo In The Real World)

"My brain is like a water faucet that I can turn on or off. Only now there is no off and the water of thoughts just flows."
— Francisco X. Stork (Behind the Eyes)