Top 50 Brian Andreas Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Brian Andreas

2. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by my self.”

— Brian Andreas

3. “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

4. “She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.”

— Brian Andreas

5. “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

6. “I’ve always liked 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

7. “If you hold on to the handle, she said, it’s easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it’s more fun if you just let the wind carry you.”

— Brian Andreas

8. “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

9. “For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.”

— Brian Andreas

10. “Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.”

— Brian Andreas

11. “She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It’s easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said.”

— Brian Andreas

12. “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

13. “There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I’m louder about other stuff so it’s easy to miss that.”

— Brian Andreas

14. “Is willing to accept that she creates her own reality except for some of the parts where she can’t help but wonder what the hell she was thinking.”

— Brian Andreas

15. “Making Room: When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there’d be room for him to stay.”

— Brian Andreas

16. “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

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

— Brian Andreas

18. “I don’t really like coffee, she said, but I don’t really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.”

— Brian Andreas

19. “Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it’s a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren’t looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right.”

— Brian Andreas

20. “There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.”

— Brian Andreas

21. “A few said they’d be horses. Most said they’d be some sort of cat. My friend said she’d like to come back as a porcupine. I don’t like crowds, she said.”

— Brian Andreas

22. “I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart.”

— Brian Andreas

23. “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.”

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24. “In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.”

— Brian Andreas

25. “There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It’s Prometheus stealing fire. That’s it. That’s what we do as scientists or technologists.”

— Brian Andreas

26. “I think my life would be easier, she said, if I could just get my selves to agree on something.”

— Brian Andreas

27. “She told me once that the year she went to England she painted her buttons yellow so she would remember what the sun felt like.”

— Brian Andreas

28. “These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it’s not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.”

— Brian Andreas

29. “The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.”

— Brian Andreas

30. “My grandmother used to say life was so much easier when you were simple-minded. It’s taken me almost my whole life to understand what she meant.”

— Brian Andreas

31. “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

32. “I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I’d see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.”

— Brian Andreas

33. “Permanence: Just because they die, she said, doesn’t mean they go away.”

— Brian Andreas

34. “I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.”

— Brian Andreas

35. “Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.”

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36. “Smaller World: I know he’s not really gone, she said, but the world still feels smaller to me today.”

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37. “I was never good at hide and seek because I’d always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don’t have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn’t found me yet.”

— Brian Andreas

38. “I’m not sure if there’s one right place I’m supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I’d give a second try in a heartbeat.”

— Brian Andreas

39. “When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it the moon. The real name never caught on.”

— Brian Andreas

40. “If you’re talking to a child, you’re going, ‘This is the wonder of science and here’s why I’m so fascinated by it.’”

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41. “Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink.”

— Brian Andreas

42. “She always camouflaged herself as a crowd. I’ve never been lonely, she said, but sometimes it’s hard to think above the noise.”

— Brian Andreas

43. “Had a long night last night on the other side of the world so he’s having a hard time this morning letting his light shine.”

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44. “Hoping to Fall Out: Leaning out as far as she can, hoping she’ll fall soon, so she can stop worrying about whether it will happen or not.”

— Brian Andreas

45. “I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I’m just spending money for the fun of it.”

— Brian Andreas

46. “What I’m mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don’t see much future in it.”

— Brian Andreas

47. “I’m an outsider by choice, she said, but I’m hoping that won’t be my choice forever.”

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48. “Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.”

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49. “I’ve read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.”

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50. “Trapped mainly by wanting things to be exactly as they are, only better.”

— Brian Andreas