48 quotes found
“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
“Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.”
“This plague... This curse... I have an idea where it came from. I don't think it's from any spell or virus or nuclear rays. I think it's from a deeper place. I think we brought it here. I think we ...”
“So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory--hope. So thi...”
“My mom used to say thats why we have memory. And the opposite of memoryhope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.”
“Well we have to. We have to remember everything. If we dont, by the time we grow up itll be gone forever.”
“Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around ...”
“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same d...”
“I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion thats damned me more than once. But I just cant hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.”
“Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.”
“The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.”
“I have begun to wonder where I came from. The person I am now, this fumbling, stumbling supplicant... was I built on the foundations of my old life, or did I rise from the grave a blank state? How ...”
“Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured ourselves behind them. We kept pouring until we...”
“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
“I erupt from the dark, crushing tunnel into a flash of light and noise. A new kind of air surrounds me, dry and cold, as they wipe the last smears of home off my skin. I feel a sharp pain as they s...”
“Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.”
“I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster w...”
“Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.”
“The burning red taste of blood floods my mouth. The sparkle of life sprays out of his cells like citrus mist from an orange peel, and I suck it in.”
“I think I remember what love was like before. There were complex emotional and biological factors. We had elaborate tests to pass, connections to forge, ups and downs and tears and whirlwinds. It w...”
