Butter Quotes
"You think I eat a lot now? That’s nothing. Tune in December 31st, when I will stream a live webcast of my last meal. Death row inmates get one. Why shouldn’t I?"
"Why do people do that—put the remote by the TV? What’s the point?"
"The humiliation is payment enough, let alone an extra charge."
"Damn! Can’t a guy enjoy a little sandwich in his own living room without feeling like he’s being judged?"
"Sometimes just standing too long wore me out, and the way I moved when I played was more exercise than my body could handle these days."
"I used to think she was embarrassed by me, but I eventually figured she just felt guilty—like she was a bad mother for letting me get so big."
"We’re not in a danger zone just yet. We should focus less on these levels and more on these levels."
"Your humor and your music will blind a good woman to that, but we do want to see a drop on the scale—for you, you understand? First we love ourselves; then we love the ladies, yes?"
"When I was growing up, he said my big frame was built for playing football. When I started growing out, he just didn’t know what to do with me."
"I knew exactly which elective the Professor wanted me to take, but I had to have a little fun with him first."
"If you can stomach it, you’re invited to watch … as I eat myself to death."
"He does? Yes, he—Ma, I told you all this. That’s why we bunked together in the first place—same doc, both from the valley."
"I don’t care what he called me. He doesn’t owe me anything, okay? We’re square."
"I’d just like to meet your new friends."
"It’s just nice to talk to someone about something real sometimes."
"Fourteen pounds, my friend! Fourteen pounds!"
"The Professor says it’s good to have people."
"There’s time for a little bit of everything in life, don’t you think?"
"I won’t see you again until the new year."
"I could truly eat myself to death. And for the first time since I’d started this whole mess, I was scared shitless."
"I didn’t want anything—not doubt, not even hope—to derail that train. I wanted to ride it all the way to the end … even if it was a dead end."
"I could have kept it there behind my lids all night, but I had to open my eyes one more time, because there was at least one face in that crowd I still wanted to see—the only one that mattered and the only one not smiling."
"Honestly, Butter, I don’t care what you do."
"You don’t make an effort. How do you know if you don’t give it a shot? You’re just afraid of being let down."
"I wanted to have faith in people like Anna, to be brave like Tucker, but I guess in the end, I was just what the FitFabbers had always accused me of being—a cynic and a coward—because I chose door number three … the front door."
"But seeing the look on Anna’s face before she walked away—the look of someone who had actually cared letting go—made me realize none of the others cared to begin with."
"I reached for my cell phone as if it were a compass—something to show me the way."
"I only cried harder. The lies I’d told the Professor were nothing compared to the ones I’d told everyone else, but I had to confess to someone—anyone—that I was a liar. I had to purge."
"The familiar feeling of hunger was like an alarm sounding—a reminder that there was still another option—one that I couldn’t imagine having a disappointing conclusion, because I couldn’t fathom what was at the end of that path at all."
"As much as I feared the institute, the idea that my parents would be willing to come along made me feel … important, like I mattered to Dad and wasn’t a lost cause for Mom."
"Risking a little disappointment for a chance at real happiness seemed like a pretty good trade to me."
"Every opportunity posed a risk of disappointment, but as I looked around my room—at the phone number propped on the nightstand, the BI pamphlets littered across the bed, and the cards and flowers from people who would be in my corner no matter what—I felt comforted by the fact that I had options."
"We could be. We just need a—a reset button."