137 quotes found
Writer · American · 1981
American writer (born 1981)
“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...”
“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...”
“Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.”
“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...”
“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?”
“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”
“There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. 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...”
“It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.”
