The Long Run Quotes

“Sandro can't smile small.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“I wish there was a movie of my life. Something I could turn on when I wanted to know what was coming. Even if it meant I'd know the ending, at least I'd know what to do next. But there aren't movies for boys like me. Growing up I could never find myself in the Hollywood endings or music montages. I wasn't giving speeches at prom, or racing to the airport. I grew up watching movies for other boys, learning from the wrong playbook. Stealing notes from someone else's paper. Maybe that's my problem.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“And the way Sandro smiled. I think that’s how I knew it was true. That I wanted it. That I wasn’t sorry. That I’d drive that kid anywhere he asked me to. Because what a fucking smile.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“I can't see it. I can't. I shouldn't have to look so hard to find love in this fucking house.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“All these misplaced emotions when really he’s just mad at himself.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“Everything came back to me then. All the anger, all the tears, they all found me again. Everything I tried to put into the ground burned out of me and the scream torched the sky. And I thought all the noise in me had died.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“You love to talk to him but you never asked if he was okay. You love that boy but you left him bleeding in the fucking dirt.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“Just because you know what's hurting you doesn't make it hurt any less.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“You don’t want a lot, Seb. So, when you find something you do, you get tunnel vision. It’s the sprinter in you. You stop thinking about the long run.” I looked at my feet. I forgot what people like Del can do. Like Lucy. They can see all the places that you’re weak. “It’s about finding the right way to want something.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“I was starting to understand that Bash didn’t want to be alone. No matter what he did to keep himself that way, Sebastian Villeda was tired of being so far from the world. Exhausted. And he had no idea how to tell the world he missed it. He’d lost his tools. He’d forgotten how to fall back to earth.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“There was no roadmap for this shit. I had no idea how to follow the rules of a first date because they never made rules for boys like me. Boys like me just had to wing it.”
― James Acker, The Long Run

“He’s always trying to translate my actions. Find the meaning behind the meaningless. But I didn’t feel like being translated today.”
― James Acker, The Long Run