Rabbit Robot Quotes

“I came unglued and went back together the wrong way and fell apart again.”
― Andrew Smith

“I stomped to the door, which was dumb because nobody can hear teenagers stomping in space. What's the point stopping if no one can hear you?”
― Andrew Smith

“And I've been counting and recounting all the finite experiences that it never seemed to matter at all: riding on a subway, getting sand in my shoes at the beach, being woken up by the sound of a neighbor's barking dog.
Because do you ever look at your life and say, hey, how many more times will I ever pack a suitcase for a trip, or write my name with a mechanical pencil, or use a tape measure?
Every experience we have, everything is finite. That’s what it is to be human - because everything we do, or don't do but think about doing, is strained through our awareness of limits. Maybe there was some comfort, some beauty, in being a cog where the infinite was feasible.”
― Andrew Smith

“What kind of world did our fathers abandon us to?”
― Andrew Smith

“We only think of days and months to keep track of times that aren't now. Fuck days. Fuck months. This was how it was going to be from now on: forever.”
― Andrew Smith

“That's really what all books are, isn't it? I mean, lists of secrets and things you only wish you’d done - a sort of deathbed confession where you're trying to get it all out while the lights are still on.”
― Andrew Smith

“Clocks are as pointless on the Tennessee as poets are on Earth.”
― Andrew Smith

“It almost boosts your self-esteem being screamed at by someone with an English accent.”
― Andrew Smith

“You fill my sombrero with sexual pudding!”
― Andrew Smith

“And if we were stuck here forever - and maybe this was just a naturally morbid thought for a teenage boy- I wondered who among us would die first and who ultimately would be left alone.”
― Andrew Smith

“Nonsense. You aren’t alive to begin with,” I pointed out. “Suck it up and make the best of it, Milo. The future is bright, I assure you.”
“We come into existence, and we float through space, doomed, until we all die horribly. No reason to live at all.”
Milo the busboy wept uncontrollably.
He probably knew more than I did, but who can say?”
― Andrew Smith

“Again, for the record, let me restate: you can't be rude to a coffee grinder and only an idiot would thank it for pulverizing beans.
But you could, and probably should, unplug it if it doesn't shut up.”
― Andrew Smith

“And never farting pointed to guilt in the courthouse of my mind.”
― Andrew Smith

“If it's impossible to understand how I could kick a weeping, torn-in-half cog that was gushing something that looked like tapioca pudding and whale semen on my nice shiny space suit, then you probably never kicked a car for getting a flat tire, or slapped a television remote when the batteries were getting weak, in which case you'll never understand what it means or meant to be a human.”
― Andrew Smith

“It's still home, Cager, and there's something about home, no matter how untidy we've left it.”
― Andrew Smith

“And maybe that's the whole point, after all - that everyone of us who existed spent all those limitless days over the thousands of centuries we were here just trying to figure out what it meant to be us. The mousetrap trigger is this precise point: Pour the word us into the coding of a human, and we immediately discount as inferior or useless all the not-us things in the universe. Are you one of us?”
― Andrew Smith