Benjamin > Benjamin's Quotes

“I think it was C.S. Lewis that asked, 'Do not most people simply drift away?'. I've always been a reader and for the longest time that stuck with me because I was at war with it. How can people 'simply' drift away?”
― Benjamin Brindise, I Was a Lid

“Sometimes things just slip past you, into your hands and out through your fingers. In my half-in/half-out state I began to wonder if that could happen to people, too.”
― Benjamin Brindise, I Was a Lid

“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things.”
― Benjamin Brindise

“I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time." - The Procession”
― Benjamin Brindise

“This is what people do. They feel uncomfortable, or they want to talk to someone - even if it's about anything - and they go to the weather, or to sports, or to any other topic you can find in a newspaper. But I couldn't blame her or anyone else who did it. Starting was always the hardest part."
- 'Cold World”
― Benjamin Brindise