“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.”
―
Benjamin Stevenson,
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“But I promised to be reliable, not competent” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“If a killer is ever revealed and your ‘percentage read’ isn’t at least in the high eighties, they cannot be the real killer; there is simply too much of the book still to be read.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Call me a reliable narrator. Everything I tell you will be the truth, or, at least, the truth as I knew it to be at the time that I thought I knew it.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“Every basic task starts to feel like a decision, and that becomes so draining that you end up unable to make any of them.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“...my editor had crossed out my first go at this sentence and written Hypo=cold, Hyper=hot in the margin, in that helpful yet smug voice editors are born with, wishing to both correct you and impart their correctness upon you at the same time.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“Owe, owe, owe. You use that word so much. A family is not a credit card.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“This works to spoil films too: the highest-profile actor with the fewest lines is always the villain, and a sudden wide-shot of a character crossing a road means they are about to be hit by a car. A good author must not only wrong-foot the reader within the narrative, they must do it within the form of the novel itself. There are clues baked into the very object.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“I'm sorry about before," I said. Seeing as we were shoulder to shoulder, I spoke outwards, lobbing my apology into the void of the mountain. It's the only way blokes know how to show humility, by pretending we're at a urinal.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“But a bad person who thinks they’re a good one—now, that’s what got him into trouble.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Growing up, I remember Katherine as youthful, energetic, and fun. She'd bring us presents and regale us with fantastic stories. I thought she was popular, too, because people would talk about her at family barbecues when she wasn't there. But age gives perspective, and now I know the difference between being popular and being talked about.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“one of the kindest things you can do to someone is to cut them off.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Franklin’s inquisitive mind craved stimulation, consistently gravitating toward whatever community of intellects asked the most intriguing questions; his expansive temperament sought souls that resonated with his own generosity and sense of virtue. In five years in England he had found more of both than in a lifetime in America. “Of all the enviable things England has,” he told Polly Stevenson, “I envy most its people. Why should that petty island, which compared to America is but like a stepping stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one’s shoes dry; why, I say, should that little island enjoy in almost every neighbourhood more sensible, virtuous and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging 100 leagues of our vast forests?” He left such people reluctantly and, he trusted, temporarily.” ― H.W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Because now I know that in the months after something so devastating, everything feels like sleepwalking.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“the repetition was a comfort against the burden of decision-making.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it’s who you’d spill it for.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“When your technology is so out of date the Romans are ahead of you, it might be time for you to get a new phone. ~Either Side of Midnight~” ― Benjamin Stevenson
“But I promised to be reliable, not competent” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“If a killer is ever revealed and your ‘percentage read’ isn’t at least in the high eighties, they cannot be the real killer; there is simply too much of the book still to be read.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Call me a reliable narrator. Everything I tell you will be the truth, or, at least, the truth as I knew it to be at the time that I thought I knew it.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“Every basic task starts to feel like a decision, and that becomes so draining that you end up unable to make any of them.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“...my editor had crossed out my first go at this sentence and written Hypo=cold, Hyper=hot in the margin, in that helpful yet smug voice editors are born with, wishing to both correct you and impart their correctness upon you at the same time.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“Owe, owe, owe. You use that word so much. A family is not a credit card.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“This works to spoil films too: the highest-profile actor with the fewest lines is always the villain, and a sudden wide-shot of a character crossing a road means they are about to be hit by a car. A good author must not only wrong-foot the reader within the narrative, they must do it within the form of the novel itself. There are clues baked into the very object.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“I'm sorry about before," I said. Seeing as we were shoulder to shoulder, I spoke outwards, lobbing my apology into the void of the mountain. It's the only way blokes know how to show humility, by pretending we're at a urinal.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“But a bad person who thinks they’re a good one—now, that’s what got him into trouble.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Growing up, I remember Katherine as youthful, energetic, and fun. She'd bring us presents and regale us with fantastic stories. I thought she was popular, too, because people would talk about her at family barbecues when she wasn't there. But age gives perspective, and now I know the difference between being popular and being talked about.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“one of the kindest things you can do to someone is to cut them off.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Franklin’s inquisitive mind craved stimulation, consistently gravitating toward whatever community of intellects asked the most intriguing questions; his expansive temperament sought souls that resonated with his own generosity and sense of virtue. In five years in England he had found more of both than in a lifetime in America. “Of all the enviable things England has,” he told Polly Stevenson, “I envy most its people. Why should that petty island, which compared to America is but like a stepping stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one’s shoes dry; why, I say, should that little island enjoy in almost every neighbourhood more sensible, virtuous and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging 100 leagues of our vast forests?” He left such people reluctantly and, he trusted, temporarily.” ― H.W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Because now I know that in the months after something so devastating, everything feels like sleepwalking.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“the repetition was a comfort against the burden of decision-making.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it’s who you’d spill it for.” ― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“When your technology is so out of date the Romans are ahead of you, it might be time for you to get a new phone. ~Either Side of Midnight~” ― Benjamin Stevenson
