Brad Meltzer > Quotes

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”
― Brad Meltzer

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.

Some scars never heal.
Then again, some do.”
― Brad Meltzer

“She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.”
― Brad Meltzer

“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“People are more twisted than people think.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. But what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write your future.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“We're all being tested...That's what life is.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“Our fathers never leave us. Ever.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.”
― Brad Meltzer

“Haven't you ever played Uno?... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.”
― Brad Meltzer

“...I'm not saying I needed my life to be a symphony - I just never thought it'd turn out to be a country song.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“Since the moment I saw her yesterday, I've been looking through the sparkly prism of exhilaration that comes with any old flame. But now, for the first time, I'm not just seeing what I want. I'm seeing what my friend needs.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“You need to understand something Cal-in this world, we're not humans having a divine experience. We're divine beings having a human experience.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“...but ever since she returned to my life...life doesn't make complete sense. But it definitely makes more sense than it used to.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“It's so damn easy to judge. But as Paolo knows from his niece, no matter how much you want someone back in your life, sometimes it's the letting-them-back-in part that hurts the most”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Do you not see that? That's what being family is - that's the best part - it's not tit for tat or who owes more, it's simply - when one hurts, so does the other; when one finds good, you share in that, too. That's family.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“We all live best in our imaginations.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“All writers steal from their own lives.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Some dreams linger for years.
And some last forever.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Pam described herself as the person in fifth grade who got left behind when her friends got popular. ”
― Brad Meltzer, The First Counsel

“Life is filled with trapdoors.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Life is a monster, Calvin. Especially when it doesn't turn out the way you hoped. But that doesn't mean you can hide from it.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“That was the problem with being desperate. It always made you sloppy.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“We all hate something from our past, Cal. That's why we run from it, or compensate for it, or even fill our van with homeless people. But when something like this happens-when your dad shows up-maybe there is a bigger purpose. 'What you intended for evil, God intended for good.' Genesis 50:20”
― Brad Meltzer, The Book of Lies

“She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“...when I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future...”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be able to overcome, and it's in those moments, in that fight, that people find out who they are.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“History is simply what's behind us.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

“We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle