“Nothing exists without its opposite.”
— Chris Crutcher“If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.”
— Chris Crutcher“Nothing exists without its opposite.”
— Chris Crutcher“It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.”
— Chris Crutcher“I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.”
— Chris Crutcher“I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.”
— Chris Crutcher“Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.”
— Chris Crutcher“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.”
— Chris Crutcher“Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others.”
— Chris Crutcher“I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles.”
— Chris Crutcher“Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman.”
— Chris Crutcher“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left, I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.”
— Chris Crutcher“...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.”
— Chris Crutcher“If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.”
— Chris Crutcher“You don't always get what you expect. Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.”
— Chris Crutcher“If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.”
— Chris Crutcher“We can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.”
— Chris Crutcher“I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.”
— Chris Crutcher“Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.”
— Chris Crutcher“I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.”
— Chris Crutcher