Chigger Quotes

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“No one was going to be looking for us; they were all too busy with more serious problems.”
David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“J’mee was a friend of Charles Dingillian, the boy who made the music.”
David Gerrold, Hella

“It wasn’t just a choice between Earth and the stars because that’s a no-brainer. That part was easy. The hard part was that Dad was asking us to choose between him and Mom.”
David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I was getting awfully tired of all the ranting, no matter who it came from.”
David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“When we woke up in the morning, the gravity was completely sideways. Except it wasn’t gravity-it was centrifugal force. We were so high, the pull of the Earth was insignificant.”
David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I don’t know why people think adventures are so wonderful. Mostly they hurt, they’re boring, and they’re dangerous.”
David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I didn’t know how Douglas and Mickey felt about the news, but the Earth seemed so far away now it didn’t matter anymore. Maybe that was the wrong way to feel, but that’s what I felt anyway.”
David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“If everybody else was going to say what was wrong, I wanted to be heard too.”
David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“Somebody took my hand in his. It felt like Dad’s hand. Large and warm and safely enveloping. I knew it had to be Douglas holding my hand, but it was nice to pretend it was Dad for a while.”
David Gerrold, Bouncing Off the Moon

“See what I mean about knowing all the words and still not knowing anything?”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I cried as we launched-why do stupid adults have to spoil everything?”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I had a feeling this was one of those conversations that I’d be replaying in my head for a long time-usually late at night when I was lying in bed, trying to fall asleep and not doing a very good job of it.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“If I was going to be miserable, I didn’t want anyone talking me out of it.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I didn’t know whether to be horrorstruck-or filled with admiration at the simple elegance of what HARLIE had done.”
David Gerrold

“My fingers leapt across the keys like dancers; they took a life of their own, rushing to keep up with the manic frenzy of the music.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I disappeared into the beautiful noise and for the first time in a long time, I felt complete.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Reverend Doctor Pettyjohn was just another adult with an agenda.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I’d been so wrapped up in my own upsets I hadn’t thought about anybody else’s.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I wasn’t the only one feeling strange. Everybody was.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Only three months ago, we’d been in El Paso and I’d been wondering why adults acted so stupid. Now, I was taking on adult responsibilities-and adults didn’t seem so stupid at all.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Everything was inside-down and upside-out. And that was just fine with me.”
David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars