479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.”
“Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.”
“And there it is: Even though were standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.”
“This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.”
“As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rule...”
“My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.”
“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, youd lo...”
“He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction.”
“There are so many things I want to tell her, so many things she doesn't know; like how I remember when she first came home from the hospital, a big pink blob with a perma-smile, and she used to fal...”
“This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it take...”
“Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.”
“I feel as though Im in a dream, where strange things are happening but they dont feel strange. Everything is cloudyeverything is wrapped in a fogand Im filled from head to toe with the single, burn...”
“As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely, the silence that follows seems just as loud.”
“If I could make it better I would, he says. In some ways its a stupid, obvious thing to say, but the way he said it, so honest and simple like its the truest thing there is, makes the tears prick i...”
“In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mou...”
“Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.”
“Ill tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend ...”
“It's weird how much people change...It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the a...”
“Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.”
“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.”
