Kevin Wilson > Quotes

“Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes,” their father told them. “Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them... You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.”
― Kevin Wilson, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

“He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“She's got a way of making a man feel guilty for certain things he'd never feel bad about on his own, like watching someone shoot himself in the face.”
― Kevin Wilson, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

“But do you enjoy it?” Annie asked. Raven stared at Annie’s reflection in the mirror. “I don’t hate it,” Raven said. “You spend enough time with anything, that’s all you can really ask for.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would be mystified to discover.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“She is prettier than her picture had prepared me for, blond curls, big blue eyes, like a fake child that someone would make in order to convince people to have children.”
― Kevin Wilson, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

“Again,' he said and, without waiting for an answer, ran into the growing dark without fear, every single part of his body overwhelmed with the task of being alive.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament to their proficiency and talent as artists. They had affected themselves with the authenticity of the moment.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“Children are not guaranteed the luxuries of family, Ms. Wells," he said. "If people are unable to exist within the parameters that have been created for them, they lose any claim to titles like son and daughter.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“I don't know what I'm saying, really, but I guess it's like having a kid, though I don't have any kids. It's yours, you made it, and no matter what happens, you have that pride of ownership. You love it, even it it didn't amount to much.”
― Kevin Wilson

“Annie, no stranger to disappointment, felt the hope break down inside her body and disperse without any lingering effects.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“These weird thoughts come into my head, and I don't even really want to think about it, but I can't let go of it until I take it as far as I can, until I reach some kind of ending, and then I can move on. That's what writing is like for me.”
― Kevin Wilson

“Annie took another sip of the vodka, letting the alcohol seep through her system, turning bad ideas into good ones.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“You are very sweet," she told him after a year of dating, as they shared dessert at a restaurant, "but it's like your family trained you to react to the world in a way that was so specific to their art that you don't know how to interact with people in the real world. You act like every conversation is just a buildup to something awful.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“What do you think I'm going to do?" she asked him.
"Whatever it is," he answered, "I think you'll be terrified when it happens. Don't let that stop you.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang

“Buster closed his eyes, held his breath, and, before he realized that the gun had been fired, a gust of heat and wind passed over him and deconstructed the beer can atop his head, the sound of something irrevocably giving up its shape and becoming, in an instant, something new.”
― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang