Brian Andreas Quotes

• Cuando empieces a abrirte, no pierdas ni un momento en reunir tu viejo yo en algo como lo que conocías antes. Deja que tu nuevo yo salpique como la luz del sol cada lugar oscuro y ríe y llora y haz sonidos que nunca hiciste y agradece a todo lo sagrado por el regalo.

  Brian Andreas

  Dark, Self, Laughing

  19 Copiar cita

• I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

  Brian Andreas

  Beautiful, Want, Kind

  36 Copiar cita

• Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

  Brian Andreas

  Morning, Real, Hero

  56 Copiar cita

• I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

  Brian Andreas

  Who I Am, Dawn, Remember

  29 Copiar cita

• Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

  Brian Andreas

  Photography, Ordinary, Looks

  39 Copiar cita

• Hay días en que dejo caer sobre mí palabras de consuelo como hojas que caen y recuerdo que basta con que me cuide sola.

  Brian Andreas

  Self Esteem, Fall, Taken

  32 Copiar cita

• I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

  Brian Andreas

  Morning, Children, Regret

  53 Copiar cita

• There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

  Brian Andreas

  Thanksgiving, Real, Cooking

  31 Copiar cita

• Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

  Brian Andreas

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Fall

  36 Copiar cita

• I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.

  Brian Andreas

  Love, Romantic, Moving

  40 Copiar cita

• Falling into Place:
  deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.

  Brian Andreas

  Fall, Mean, Long

  21 Copiar cita

• If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

  Brian Andreas

  Fun, Wind, Illusion Of Control

  31 Copiar cita

• Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

  Brian Andreas

  Tiempo, Importante, Suficiente

  28 Copiar cita

• There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

  Brian Andreas

  Country, Matter, Too Much

  10 Copiar cita

• There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

  Brian Andreas

  Forever, Moments, Too Short

  28 Copiar cita

• I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

  Brian Andreas

  Flor, Oscuridad, Jardín

  14 Copiar cita

• We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

  Brian Andreas

  Estrellas, Ciencia, Noche

  24 Copiar cita

• You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

  Brian Andreas

  Funny Friend, Long, Mets

  12 Copiar cita

• The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

  Brian Andreas

  Laughter, Wind, Wings

  25 Copiar cita

• In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

  Brian Andreas

  Dream, Angel, Hands

  15 Copiar cita

• There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

  Brian Andreas

  Laughter, Children, Noise

  31 Copiar cita

• If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.

  Brian Andreas

  Secret, Sound, This Life

  22 Copiar cita

• My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

  Brian Andreas

  Grandma, Italian, Tin Cans

  17 Copiar cita

• There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger

  Brian Andreas

  Song, Rooms, Moments

  4 Copiar cita

• He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

  Brian Andreas

  Relationship, Long, Enough

  12 Copiar cita