Crash and Burn Quotes

“No. I do not fucking play soccer. Do you think I'd be this fat if I played fucking soccer?”
― Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn

“the point is that each of us has the ability to choose what he wants to learn, and in the end it all works out.”
― Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn

“I was a genius in my own way. It didn’t matter whether anyone ever noticed.”
― Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn

“I’ve already learned everything I’m ever going to learn in any school. That’s part of my problem. I’m way beyond their elementary textbooks and into an entirely other dimension of thought and learning. And they want to replace that ability with a computer chip that responds to basic rules without questioning them.”
― Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn

“And I responded, "Did you remind her that he tried to kill me when I wouldn't help him try to burn down McAllister?"
"Yeah, well, he had this thing about fire and explosions when he was young," she said, and it was almost like she was making excuses for him. "But his mother said he's over it now.”
― Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn

“Burn fake-smiled back. "This holiday is already a mockery. Its very purpose it to express gratitude for the harvest. Well, excuse me, sir, if I don't express my gratitude as my father was incinerated in the World Trade Center and my mother has drugged me and sent me off to a school filled with psychotics, thanks to your advice. Consequently, there is no harvest for me."
Fuckme, is what I thought.”
― Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn

“He reached across the table and I knew, I totally knew that if he saw my cards, the damage would be irreparable.
So, stoned as I was, I stood up and pushed the table toward him, scattering the money and pushing my cards quickly into the remaining deck.”
― Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn

“didn’t think that my mom was stressed, until that moment. But his line got me thinking, as in, why was my mom stressed at all? She didn’t work; all she did was basically get us up for school, then to after-school activities, and feed us,”
― Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn