Reality Boy Quotes

“But what’s crazy and what’s sane when everything is possible and yet nothing ever happens?”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“Voice mail was invented by confident people to make unconfident people say stupid shit that gets taped and haunts us forever.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“Maybe most other people are messed up, too. It just wasn't aired on TV.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“Only you can allow yourself to be angry.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“Because it's true. Isn't that the only reason to ever say anything?”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“In nature, crying is okay. Waterfalls cry all the time.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“I want to be the joint that she smokes so that we can finally talk about
everything without having to use words, because I will be a drug in her brain.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“I used to love school until everybody got old enough to point and laugh.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“What occurs to me at this second is this: There is a huge world out there. I only know my dumb family and my dumb house and my dumb school and my dumb job. But there is a huge world out there…and most of it is underwater.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“She looks at me as we walk under a streetlight. “You’re really handsome, you know that?”
I don’t know what to say. I don’t think anyone uses the word handsome anymore. I feel humbled by it. Because it’s old and grandmothers say it, it seems classy and real and I feel…handsome. It makes me smile.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“I never realized how uncomfortable I am around happy people before.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“Then I walk away because she’s irresistible, and I am on a mission to resist her.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“Maybe if we all saw ourselves as nature, we’d be kinder.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“School’s important at the moment.
Unsexiest statement ever.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy

“As they doled out punishments, I felt like I was floating through the deepest parts of the sea, holding my breath. A whale swam by and brushed against my back. A school of fish swam around me in a fish-cyclone and then swam away again. I could see the surface and the vague brightness of life above the water, but I was tied to something by my ankle. I was five years old and I already knew it---that the day I inhaled would kill me.”
― A.S. King, Reality Boy