Bream Gives Me Hiccups Quotes

“Because going through a hard life with someone else is better than going through an easy life alone.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“Lies are for adults who are sad in their lives.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“But kids think differently than adults think. Adults have spent so many years thinking more and more like each other because the more you live with other people the less you think like yourself and the more you think like them. But kids are new people so we still think more normally.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“And I wanted to ask her if she only took me around so that Dad would pay for her but I already knew the answer: Mom took me around because she needed me. Because going through a hard life with someone else is better than going through an easy life alone.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“At the front of Sushi Nozawa is a mean woman. When I asked Mom why the woman is so angry, Mom said it’s because she’s Japanese and that it’s cultural. The woman at school who serves lunch is also mean but she is not Japanese. Maybe it’s just serving food that makes people angry.
I understand why the people who work here are so angry. I guess it’s like working at a gas station, but instead of cars, they have to fill up people. And people eat slowly and talk about their stupid lives at the table and make each other laugh, but when the waiters come by, the people at the table stop laughing and become quiet like they don’t want to let anyone else know about their great jokes. And if the waiters talk about their own lives, they’re not allowed to talk about how bad it is, only how good it is, like, “I’m doing great, how are you?” And if they say something truthful like, “I’m doing terrible, I’m a waiter here,” they will probably get fired and then they will be even worse. So it’s probably always a good idea to talk about things happily. But sometimes that’s impossible. That’s why I’m giving Sushi Nozawa 16 out of 2000 stars.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“I thought it must have been scary to be an Apatosaurus because he just wanted to be nice but there was probably a lot of pressure to be mean because he was a dinosaur.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“Every relationship has a kind of pattern, I guess, and maybe the pattern is more important than the stuff that makes up the pattern.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories

“Prisoner One: I'm sick of it here. I have dreams, man. I wanna travel up the coast, fall in love with a Babylonian woman and stone her to death when she menstruates.

Prisoner 2: That does sound nice. But I think I prefer to serve out my time here and live a relaxing life in Pompeii. Maybe teach Latin to at-risk youth. You know, give back a little.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“Why can’t you stand like that guy on stage? Look at his posture. Forget that he's black for a second and just look at his body. His shoulders are back. He has confidence. You look like you’re apologizing even before you open your mouth. You walk into a room, no one notices. He walks onstage, we’re all looking. Look at him; he’s like 
a walking picture.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“Adults have spent so many years thinking more and more like each other because the more you live with other people the less you think like yourself and the more you think like them. But kids are new people so we still think more normally.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“I asked Dwayne Beemer if he like a lyric I was tooling around with last week—"Your love is like sandpaper in my veins"—and he looked at me like I was the dumbest person in the world. And now I have his judgy face emblazoned in my mind when we play "Sandpaper Blood.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“In fact, you may both win, regardless of the "score"!! What is a "score" anyway?! an arbitrary number assigned in accordance with how many times a ball goes through a hoop?! How silly compared to the amount of times you've overcome adversity together!”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“I think it's probably best if we don't write to each other for a while because, Miss Rita, I think I probably use you for a crutch. And I know it's sometimes really hard to live without a crutch, especially when you feel like your legs really hurt, but it's better in the long run.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“...and how you would make things that seemed like big problems seem like small problems or like not problems at all...”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“And you put your hand on the top of my head in a kind of weird way and you said, “You deserve to be happy."

And my mind kind of like exploded a bit. Because I realized that you were right! And that I did deserve to be happy, but not like in a selfish way (like I should have more happiness than someone else), but just in a way that's like "I'm a human being and it's okay for me to be a happy one.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“Sometimes I worry that the only thing I really have is myself and that's a really scary thought.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“I guess sometimes it's easier to see how people act when it's not happening to you.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“And sometimes knowing someone really well is more important than liking them.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true. And I think that the more someone says something, the less it’s probably going to be true.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups

“It’s like just because the adults thought it was a great idea, we would too. But kids think differently than adults think. Adults have spent so many years thinking more and more like each other because the more you live with other people the less you think like yourself and the more you think like them. But kids are new people so we still think more normally.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Bream Gives Me Hiccups