Rontel Quotes

“My brother said something, but I’d been distracted by a nice flower in someone’s back yard.
Wanted to pick it for my girlfriend.
Then I realized she might be sad I killed it.
Seemed like something she’d get sad about.
Maybe not.
I could just say, “Here, I killed this for you.”
As in, “Of course I would kill something for you.”
As in, “Everything is potentially your gift.”
― Sam Pink, Rontel

“And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult. But never became one.”
― Sam Pink, Rontel

“He just danced, eating chips. Then he started bouncing up and down, bending at the knees. Classic baby style. I felt like turning to the girl next to me and saying, “Ah, classic baby style.”
― Sam Pink, Rontel

“The terrible divide between trying and being ready to try.”
― Sam Pink, Rontel

“You still worked, thinking I didn’t.
But I do still work.
I still work and I want you to know that.”
― Sam Pink, Rontel

“I sat there terrified.
Why would anyone accept some random hug.
I'd never accepted a random hug in my life.
And never would!
Actually no.
What the fuck.
Who am I to deny.
I'd take the first one offered by anyone right now--even if I saw the person holding a giant knife behind his/her back.
Even if the person ended up stabbing me, I'd take a deep breath and put my mouth by his or her ear and say, "I knew you'd do this. I knew it, sweetheart. And, well I still thank you for the hug."
I turned the page.”
― Sam Pink, Rontel

“I felt at peace with the universe.
No, I didn't feel that.”
― Sam Pink, Rontel

“How the mouth of the cat carcass would shake terribly at me as the tire spun. And how, yeah, it’d be fucking awesome if a magic key came out of the cat’s shaking mouth—a magical key that took me on a magical journey and ended up, somehow, with me being born as a baby eagle but like, with the mind I have now (why not).”
― Sam Pink, Rontel