Brandon Stanton · 428 pages
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“I've learned that every feeling will pass if you give it time. And if you learn to deal with your feelings, they'll pass by faster each time. So don't rush to cover them up by medicating them. You've got to deal with them.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“The great thing about New York is that if you sit in one place long enough, the whole world comes to you.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“I'm having trouble dealing with society."
"What aspect of society?"
"The whole thing.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“The sadness is under the thoughts. It's like when you're on a camping trip, and it's really cold, and you put on extra socks and an extra sweater, but you still can't get warm, because the coldness is in your bones.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“I'm a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I'm not holding back.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“Shes's always been very accepting and patient with my trust issues. I've always had a hard time getting close. But no matter how many times I doubted, she just kept saying: 'I'm not going anywhere.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“Anyone who has a two hundred-plus IQ runs the risk of just hanging out because you get too involved in your own thoughts and you just want to sit there and think about .”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“Anyone who has a two hundred-plus IQ runs the risk of just hanging out because you get too involved in your own thoughts and you just want to sit there and think about them.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“I have a lot of mental illness right now. Half of my energy goes into taking care of myself. I've been daydreaming about shaving my head fully 'cause then I'll look as sick as I feel.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“It might be a cultural thing, but I was always scolded for showing emotion. Sadness was always met with anger.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“There are two books in America: one for the poor and one for the rich. The poor person does a crime and gets forty years. A rich person gets a slap on the wrist for the same crime.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“Sometimes it's hard not to fall in love with your friends.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“The more times I fall in love, the less sure I am about love.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“I'm trying to write a book based on myself, but i keep changing.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“If you're a thief, don't complain about being robbed.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
“Animals only want to live. It's humans that demand more than they need.”
― Brandon Stanton, quote from Humans of New York: Stories
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“You don't take a traveler for a partner if you hope that the world will always stay the same. You do it because you can't quite break away, yourself, but you can't live without the promise of change hanging over you every day.
That's what the border means, for a lot of people. The promise of change they'd never be able to make any other way.”
― Greg Egan, quote from Schild's Ladder
“Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.'
'Thank you,' said Robin.”
― Robin McKinley, quote from The Outlaws of Sherwood
“He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.”
― Frederick Buechner, quote from Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
“She's only got eight fingers but she's got them stuck in all kinds of pies, and she keeps her thumbs bare for testing new ones.”
― Catherine Cookson, quote from The Black Candle
“In 1935, the Los Angeles Police Department, via mayoral directive, sends a battalion of police officers to the Nevada border to stop hitchhikers, primarily Mexican nationals, from entering the state of California. They return after four days and report that they were unable to stem the flow of immigration.”
― James Frey, quote from Bright Shiny Morning
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