137 quotes found
Writer · American · 1981
American writer (born 1981)
“Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.”
“Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.”
“Good people see past their own fucking lives.”
“There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.”
“I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.”
“The darkness of the room is pulsing with gunfire, and by our standards we are grossly outnumbered - there are only three of us to every one of them - but something is tipping things in our favor. O...”
“The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.”
“...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.”
“Your dreamers. You ridiculous children. You dancing grinning fuckups. Here is your bright future. Your earnest, saccharine hope. How does it taste dripping from the neck of everyone you love?”
“Music? Music is life! Its physical emotion - you can touch it! Its neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that its ...”
“In the darkest and strangest of places with the most macabre of company, this music moves her and her life pulses hard... And even for Julie's safety, I can't bring myself to smother it.”
“What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?”
“Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on ...”
“Mozart, Julie says in a bitter chuckle, staring at the speaker. Its supposed to be the pinnacle of art, right? This transcendent human achievement? And we use it for background noise in bathrooms. ...”
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I a...”
“You wont starve, R. In my short life I made so many choices just because I thought they were required, but my dad was right: theres no rule book for the world. Its in our heads, our collective huma...”
“I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly ma...”
“What is left of us? No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. Whats at our core, then? Whats still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?”
“To be or not to be, that is the question: to go on living, fighting against this sea of troubles, or to die and end everything? Why be afraid of death? To die is to sleep, no more. Perhaps to dream...”
“I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important...but theres got to be something beyond that, right?”
“That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.”
