137 quotes found
Writer · American · 1981
American writer (born 1981)
“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...”
“I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.”
“How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?”
“I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys”
“She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's hap...”
“Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?”
“I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bite somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts" -Warm Bodies”
“Theres not really such thing as good or bad people, theres just likehumanity. And it gets broken sometimes.”
“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
“...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.”
“... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they w...”
“Its not about keeping up the population, its about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we dont just end.”
“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 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?”
“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 ...”
“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.”
