“A lot of times when I think I’m being self-sufficient, I’m really just learning to live without the things that I need.”
―
Kevin Wilson,
Nothing to See Here
“Because I kept fucking up, because it seemed so hard to not fuck up, I lived a life where I had less than what I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Maybe raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world and hoping that they loved them too.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“I started to care less about the future. I cared more about making the present tolerable.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
“The kids were happy. They had added another to their numbers. They didn't want to set the world on fire. They just wanted to be less alone in it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“I wasn’t destined for greatness; I knew this. But I was figuring out how to steal it from someone stupid enough to relax their grip on it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes,” their father told them. “Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are.” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
“From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it’s hard to summon it when you really need it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“This was what I finally realized, that even as we sank deeper and deeper into our lives, we were always separate. And I wondered what it would feel like, to fall but to hold on to someone else so you weren’t alone.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“I had never wanted kids, because I had never wanted a man to give me a kid. The thought of it, gross; the expectation of it. But if a hole in the sky opened up and two weird children fell to Earth, smashing into the ground like meteroites, then that was something I could care for. If it gleamed like it was radiating danger, I’d hold it. I would.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Something was ending. Even if it had been awful, my life was ending, and it felt like this wasn't my life anymore. It was someone else's. And I had decided that I'd just live inside it, see if anyone noticed, and maybe it would become mine. Maybe I would love it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
“I'm not joking when I say that I never liked people, because people scared me. Because anytime I said what was inside me, they had no idea what I was talking about. They made me want to smash a window just to have a reason to walk away from them. Because I kept fucking up, because it seemed so hard not to fuck up, I lived a life where I had less than what I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing, not even food or air. And if I wanted nothing, I'd just have to turn in to a ghost. And that would be the end of it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Things are bad and crazy and chaotic. But you ride it out and you don't let it hurt you, and then there's this stretch of time that is so calm and perfect. And that's what was always worth waiting for.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“The simplest things are the hardest to understand.” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
“Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them... You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.” ― Kevin Wilson, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
“Because I kept fucking up, because it seemed so hard to not fuck up, I lived a life where I had less than what I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Maybe raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world and hoping that they loved them too.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“I started to care less about the future. I cared more about making the present tolerable.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
“The kids were happy. They had added another to their numbers. They didn't want to set the world on fire. They just wanted to be less alone in it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“I wasn’t destined for greatness; I knew this. But I was figuring out how to steal it from someone stupid enough to relax their grip on it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes,” their father told them. “Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are.” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
“From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it’s hard to summon it when you really need it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“This was what I finally realized, that even as we sank deeper and deeper into our lives, we were always separate. And I wondered what it would feel like, to fall but to hold on to someone else so you weren’t alone.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“I had never wanted kids, because I had never wanted a man to give me a kid. The thought of it, gross; the expectation of it. But if a hole in the sky opened up and two weird children fell to Earth, smashing into the ground like meteroites, then that was something I could care for. If it gleamed like it was radiating danger, I’d hold it. I would.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Something was ending. Even if it had been awful, my life was ending, and it felt like this wasn't my life anymore. It was someone else's. And I had decided that I'd just live inside it, see if anyone noticed, and maybe it would become mine. Maybe I would love it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
“I'm not joking when I say that I never liked people, because people scared me. Because anytime I said what was inside me, they had no idea what I was talking about. They made me want to smash a window just to have a reason to walk away from them. Because I kept fucking up, because it seemed so hard not to fuck up, I lived a life where I had less than what I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing, not even food or air. And if I wanted nothing, I'd just have to turn in to a ghost. And that would be the end of it.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“Things are bad and crazy and chaotic. But you ride it out and you don't let it hurt you, and then there's this stretch of time that is so calm and perfect. And that's what was always worth waiting for.” ― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
“The simplest things are the hardest to understand.” ― Kevin Wilson, The Family Fang
“Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them... You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.” ― Kevin Wilson, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
