102 quotes found
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
“The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
“Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
“She loved so much misteries tha she became one”
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books. I tramp a perpetual journey All goes onward and outward.... ...”
“I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.”
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
“Everything looks uglier close up.”
“But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. ...”
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no pl...”
“You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another,but in the end the listenin EXPOSES you even more th...”
“Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or dont love us, or dont get us, or ...”
“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”
“Thats always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because theyre pretty. Its like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
“The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.”
“A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.”
“We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”
“It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and...”
