Top 8 Quotes by Brent Runyon

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

People, Problem, Introvert

Brent Runyon (2005). “The Burn Journals”, p.265, Vintage

Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.

Brent Runyon

Thinking, Worry, Upset

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

Brent Runyon

Book, Writing, Kids

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

Brent Runyon

Eye, Thinking, Color

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

Brent Runyon

Mother, Father, Progress