"The Things a Brother Knows" Quotes
Levi's return from the Marines prompts his younger brother to embark on a journey to truly understand the changes he's undergone.
young adult | 256 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens.
It's the waiting that's the worst. The waiting and the not knowing if you're waiting for nothing.
But it's not fair, is it? How you can have a brother and then suddenly not have a brother?
I didn't know if I was trying to be like Bo or trying not to be like Bo.
I had a brother. Now I don't.
Maybe it's the people who have lost something who are best able to tell you how to hold onto something.
You think that you know a person, but then they surprise you, and you find out that they are someone else.
There's something about being with other people who are also missing someone that makes it a little easier. A little less lonely.
I guess I was still trying to hold onto the Bo that I knew, the Bo I thought I knew.
I wanted to believe that there was something else, that there was a way to get back to the way things were, but there wasn't.





