"Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

"
— Brian Andreas

"Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life."
— Brian Andreas

""You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go.
Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up.
You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you:

Today, no matter what it takes,
we ride home together." "
— Brian Andreas (Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind)

"We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own."
— Brian Andreas

"In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone."
— Brian Andreas

"I have too much to lose, she said, if I cross that line. Like what? I said. She could not think of anything that day so she said she'd get back to me. Since then I've been thinking what I would lose if I cross my line & I haven't come up with anything either. There's always another line somewhere.

"
— Brian Andreas

"I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

"For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching."
— Brian Andreas

"Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life. "
— Brian Andreas

"I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.

It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

"Remember to use positive affirmations. I am not a dork is not one of them."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

"In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination

and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand."
— Brian Andreas

"Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you. "
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

"This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore
"
— Brian Andreas

"if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that."
— Brian Andreas

"I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it. "
— Brian Andreas

"The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I miss appointments without it."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

"Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth. "
— Brian Andreas

"feels like some kind of ride but it's turning out just
to be life going absolutely perfectly"
— Brian Andreas

"Trapped mainly by wanting things to be exactly as they are, only better "
— Brian Andreas

"we went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again."
— Brian Andreas

"Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn."
— Brian Andreas

"I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days."
— Brian Andreas (Strange Dreams - Collected Stories & Drawings)

"That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky
And there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our grief
and then one by one,
we stood tall
and came together
and began to sing of life and love and all that is good and true
And I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them."
— Brian Andreas (Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind)

"There are your fog people & your sun people, he said. I said I wasn't sure which kind I was. He nodded. Fog'll do that to you, he said."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

"Every day he stood in front of the Bank of America. You're trapped in the belly of a big pink pig, he said. We ignored him. We had work to do."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time. "
— Brian Andreas

"There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise. "
— Brian Andreas

"A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said. "
— Brian Andreas

"I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat. "
— Brian Andreas

"I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. "
— Brian Andreas

"What I'm mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don't see much future in it."
— Brian Andreas