137 quotes found
Writer · American · 1981
American writer (born 1981)
“I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.”
“Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.”
“We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.”
“...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?”
“It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first son...”
“My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.”
“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.”
“The magic that confounds them is humanity. The naturally occurring, slow acting, unpredictably potent product of conscious minds connecting. These madmen want to synthesise love. They want to manuf...”
“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 ...”
“Im alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.”
“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...”
“You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but its your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.”
“Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. Its beautiful. It crunches under my fee...”
“The ethics of eating people are blurry at best in the fog of my undead amnesia, but I expect more for such a high price. What I want are the moments I will never have. The warm ones. The living ones.”
“My mind has cleared a little; Ive regained some instincts and associations, echoes of the Living world if not actual memories. Those I still have to steal.”
