Brother Quotes

“some people get addicted to feeling bad because whenever they feel good they feel guilty.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“The air was always better when the world was sleeping. It made it easier to breathe.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“He’d do it because when he looked into her eyes, he saw magic. Maybe facing his fear and allowing their limbs to tangle together would cause some of that magic to rub off on him. Maybe drawing his hands across her bare skin would make him a better person. Perhaps it would erase all his wrongs, would let him start over, be someone new.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“If that house were alive, it would feed on happiness and breathe out nothing but screaming and hate.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“He was immune to them now. Cleansed by his own hate.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“People were unpredictable. They asked a lot of questions, and sometimes finding appropriate answers was hard.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Day or night, dead was dead.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“A party ain’t a party without a splash of red.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Every kindness, no matter how small, was anchored in blood.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“When he finally managed it, he truly saw her for the first time, and what he saw made his heart ache. She wasn’t pretty like Lucy. Lucy was more of a generic, everyday pretty rather than genuinely beautiful. Michael had seen that kind of pretty more times than he could count. Snow White was ethereal, as though she’d been plucked from the pages of a storybook.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —Oscar Wilde”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Bit warm for that”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“You’re kidding, right? No way. Even Pittsburgh or Columbus, Ohio, would be better than Daliah.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Michael hated chasing down the ones who managed to break away, hated how he extinguished the flash of dogged optimism that sparked in their eyes. He couldn’t stand the way they looked at him, as though he’d walked in on a private moment. He despised the way their eyes grew to twice their original size and their mouths worked the air, as though chewing invisible food. He liked it better when they died in the yard, where all he had to deal with was an unblinking stare and a slashed throat. People were much easier to deal with when they were dead.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“He only wished Momma would kill them while the sun was shining rather than waiting ’til dark. If it didn’t matter how hard they screamed, Michael didn’t get what the difference would be. Day or night, dead was dead. At least during the day he wasn’t trying to sleep.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“You know what they say—some people get addicted to feeling bad because whenever they feel good they feel guilty.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“If Michael didn’t trust in his brother and best friend, it would serve him well to pray for a little more faith.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“You know what they say--some people get addicted to feeling bad because whenever they feel good they feel guilty”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Because anywhere was better than here. He only hoped that in the end he wouldn't be left on his own.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“He wanted to sweep her up into his arms and hold her for the rest of his life, wanted to apologize a million times in a million different languages, to hopefully strike a chord.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Good idea,” he said. “A party ain’t a party without a splash of red.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“He figured if whiskey numbed the pain of a broken arm, it could probably dull the ache of a broken heart.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“I just feel like I’m suffocating. Don’t you ever feel like you don’t belong somewhere, like you’re out of place?”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Shit like that’s generational, born into the family like them diseases they talk about on the TV. Like cancer.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“Especially not on those, and especially not after my dad died. She likes to wallow in it, I guess. You know what they say—some people get addicted to feeling bad because whenever they feel good they feel guilty. I’m pretty sure that’s her deal.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“The Beach Boys are for shark bait,” she told him. “This is super rare. It’ll change your life.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“He diverted his gaze once more, looked down at the album cover in his hands. She made him feel awkward, vulnerable, scrambling his thoughts with the curve of her lips. His heart palpitated with the way she shifted her weight from one foot to the other, as though dancing to a beat only she could hear.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“And for the first time in his life, he truly understood. This was not his family. This was not supposed to be his life.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“To Jennifer Chambers Lynch, Damian O’Donnell, and the cast of the incredible 2012 film Chained—a lot of people will read this and think The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but that’s inaccurate. It was Chained that inspired me to write this book.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother