Andrew Smith

You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you__l never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

Coffee is a girl who never tells a boy no.

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex.

Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.

There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.

Mind the gap, Jack

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man__ library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.

Not a very pretty world, is it?""Which one?

I am going to build something big for you.

A world between my fingers.

But Jack doesn'

Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone.

Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened.