Anatomy of a Misfit Quotes

“It's one of those dumb days where nothing's really wrong but nothing's really right either and the sky can't even choose to be white or gray.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“Ceaseless.
Almost too much for this small frame.
You make me part of the sky.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I don't know how to act around anybody.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“But if I can keep my mind on these pages I don't have to care. I can make this all just go away. Poof. I can stay in this book and then this book gets to be real and everything else gets to be fake and who cares anyway.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“You could waste your whole life worrying, you know that?”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“You get one chance.

You get to do this and that and you don't even know when it goes from swirling forward and around and around in circles to just a plain cold stop and nothing more. Can you believe it? All this time I've spent weighing this and weighing that, worrying about this and worrying about that, living back then and living forward, caring about so-and-so, too, but never living here, here, this moment here. Never even acknowledging that this moment even exists, and it hits me like a live volt through the chest.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“We tried to be all of the things ... we are not.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“Just so you know. I fucking loved you. I fucking loved the daylights out of you.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“Okay, listen, I don't know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn't born yesterday so I am gonna go now and leave you to whatever dumb idiot girl is gonna buy that line.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“This moment here.
This is all you get.
Before you are part of the sky.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“We tried to be less self-involved. We tried to look up from our dumb obsessions and notice other people. We tried to be open, for once. We tried not to be just another vaguely racist family. We tried to be enlightened. We tried to be good.
We tried to be all of the things . . . we are not.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“Let's just call it like it is, no need to pretty it up. I care what other people think of me. I'm not Jesus Christ. I'm just a girl in the world.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“You get one chance.
You get to do this thing one time and you don’t even know when it goes from swirling forward and around and around in circles to just a plain cold stop and nothing more. Can you believe it? All this time I’ve spent weighing this and weighing that, worrying about this and worrying about that, living back then and living forward, caring about what so-and-so thinks and about so-and-so, too, but never living here, here, this moment here. Never even acknowledging that this moment even exists, and it hits me, like a live volt through the chest.
This moment here.
This is all you get.
Before you are part of the sky”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“Logan is a sideways, brilliant, honest guy who does the coolest stuff ever, and everybody hates, but who I am basically in love with.
But Logan is damaged, broken. And, let’s not sugarcoat it, that ain’t gonna change.
Even though it isn’t his fault, even though his shitty father caused it, even though it’s not fair . . . that kinda thing cuts deep. That kinda thing sticks”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I know a lot of people think that whole God thing is a joke but I just get a feeling he's up there somewhere.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“Never judge a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I bet she thought she was getting into a fight with a vanilla wafer on roller skates but little did she know she was getting into a fight with a spider sandwich.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I mean, if there was any justice in the world you wouldn’t even have to go to school during your period.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I cared what everybody thought more than what I thought. Or more than my heart thought. And that makes me an idiot.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I can't help but wonder...if it's such a big deal for a middle-aged white guy to feel important...What happens when he doesn't?”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I mean it's like trying to decide between James Dean and Elvis. Seriously, who could make that choice?”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I know they say that’s the way the cookie crumbles and all. But you can’t help but wonder why there’s any cookie-crumbling going on in the first place.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“You look cute in your little uniform." [Jared]

Did he read my mind or something?

"Yeah? You don't think I look like an Easter egg?"

"No. I think you look like I should be asking you to marry me."

CRASH!”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“I'd like a cheese Bunza. French fries. A Dr Pepper --"

"Oh, you're a Pepper?"

"Yeah, I'm a Pepper. Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?"

I can't help but laugh at this guy. He's actually funny. Kind of a surprise. I thought maybe he'd just be some hot lug-head jerk. But this? This is unfair.

"And a shake."

"Really?"

"Yeah. A shake. Instead of Dr Pepper. Oh ... and you. I'd like a date with you. Saturday night.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“Pedaling fast fast fast, this is the moment. One of those movie moments you never think is gonna happen to you, but it happens to you, and now it's here.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“To be honest, she may be kind of scared of the register. Or maybe she can’t add. She is a Christian. I don’t think they believe in math.”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit

“It doesn’t say: “Logan’s kid brothers looked like little angels in Star Wars pajamas and that fucking fuckface tried to shoot them dead, and what’s the point in God, or anything in the universe after that?”
It doesn’t say: “God. Where the fuck were you last night?”
― Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit