Kids of Appetite Quotes

“We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“I think Mad saw in books what I saw in art: the weightless beauty of the universe.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“My heart was so full, I thought it might explode into the ether, creating some bizarre new solar system whose inhabitants ate only love, drank only hope, and breathed only joy. What a substantial galaxy that would be.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Till we’re old-new.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“I ask, “You ever hear that a person has to go through fire to become who they’re meant to be?”
Mendes sips her coffee, nods. “Sure.”
“I’ve always wanted to be strong, Miss Mendes, I just wish there wasn’t so much fire.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“I used to think love was bound by numbers: first kisses, second dances, infinite heartbreaks. I used to think numbers outlasted the love itself, surviving in the dark corners of the demolished heart. I used to think love was heavy and hard.
I don’t think those things anymore.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Sinking into fiction: the if-only of if-onlys.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Music was more than subjective; it was erratic. It was the ship on the horizon that one sailor saw, the other sailor didn’t.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Sometimes you tell the truth, and things are better for it. Other times truth hangs in the air like a fog, clouding the pretty lies.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“They understood that lasting pain could only be dealt at the root.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“The longer you hold onto an apology, the harder it is to give.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn’t Moebius at all, but other people’s inability to define me by anything else.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Quiet observers tend to be loud thinkers.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“They lived and they laughed and they saw it was good.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Scroll, scroll, scroll, play—now, to disappear completely into an entirely other world.
In that world: every faction left me alone.
In that world: I was not one seven-billionth of the planet’s population.
In that world: I was one-fourth of the planet’s population: it was Dad, the sopranos, and me.
In that world: we soared through the sky and clouds, above it all, not a care in the world, the most miraculous of gaggles, catching the soul of those rare, lovely heart-thinkers.
In that world: my wing was mended.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Memories are as infinite as the horizon.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“I stare at the many factions of Bundle, and I wonder at the injustice of the world: Vic’s outsides can’t reflect his insides, as much as I want them to. Bundel’s outsides can’t help but reflect his insides, as much as I don’t want them to.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“I was a little younger than most in my class—Mom said this gave me an edge. I’d finish school sooner, discover the world first, and maybe find whatever great thing I was meant for.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“It’s no accident, the memories that last. They are survivors.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Our past tenses last way longer than our present ones.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Sideways hugs are such bullshit. Hug me or don’t. The indecisiveness is a real problem for me.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Russ remarked how hot it had been. I agreed it had been very hot. He said, 'Aren't you from the Congo?' I said, 'Well, I am an American citizen now, but yes—I was born in the Republic of the Congo. Why do you ask?' Russ said, 'Oh, nothing, I just figured you would be used to the heat, having lived in the jungle.' I looked Russ in his eyes, asked him, 'Are you from New Jersey?' 'Yes,' said Russ, 'born and raised.' I nodded. 'So I assume you strip down to your underwear and make out with very tan girls in hot tubs.' Russ raised an eyebrow and smiled. 'No,' he said, 'why would you think that?' I said, 'I have seen the television show Jersey Shore, so I am educated in the way all people from New Jersey live.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“I hope you were right," he whispered. "I hope there's beauty in my asymmetry."

"You weren't a nuisance," he continued, his words growing louder in the cold, snowy silence. "You were the Northern Dancer, sire of the century, the superest of all racehorses.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“the longer you hold on to an apology, the harder it is to give it away.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“I ask, "You ever hear that a person has to go through fire to become who they're meant to be?"
Mendes sips her coffee, nods. "Sure."
"I've always wanted to be strong, Miss Mendes. I just wish there wasn't much fire.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“Mad did more than sew together some metaphorical patch. It wasn’t that she fixed me so much as she helped me fix myself.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“You guys are the most beautiful run-on sentence I’ve ever heard,' I said.
'We,' said Mad.
'What?'
'We are the most beautiful run-on sentence you’ve ever heard.'
We. What a word.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

“And when the kids needed someone most, someone to love and trust, they found one another, and they called themselves the Kids of Appetite, and they lived and they laughed and they saw that it was good.”
― David Arnold, Kids of Appetite