137 quotes found
Writer · American · 1981
American writer (born 1981)
“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.”
“Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.”
“Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.”
“Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken”
“What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?”
“Its more eerie to be alone in a city thats lit up and functioning than one thats a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdso...”
“Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends corpses in the light of their burning school. Skeletons ripping open men's c...”
“Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair? Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.”
“The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.”
“The Dead are a larger army than any ever assembled, and they follow no leader, fear no threat, and accept no bribe or compromise. The Dead are the silent majority, and should they ever decide to sa...”
“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...”
“She remembers sprinting over the thin after-waves that slid over each other like sheets of glass. When she ran with the waves it looked like she wasnt moving. When she ran against them it looked li...”
“Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.”
“Maybe eventually winter will finish our job for us and end the world in ice instead of blood.”
“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.”
