I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.

— Brian Andreas

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

— Brian Andreas

I used to believe my father about everything, but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.

— Brian Andreas

I used to wait for a sign, she said, before I did anything. Then one night I had a dream & an angel in black tights came to me & said, you can start any time now, & then I asked is this a sign? & the angel started laughing & I woke up. Now, I think the whole world is filled with signs, but if there's no laughter, I know they're not for me.

— Brian Andreas

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot. It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.

— Brian Andreas

One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly what the world needed everywhere I went.

— Brian Andreas

That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky And there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our grief and then one by one, we stood tall and came together and began to sing of life and love and all that is good and true And I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them.

— Brian Andreas

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

— Brian Andreas

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

— Brian Andreas

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