Scott Thompson > Quotes

“My mind sees various sides to every problem, which keeps me from ever solving any problem.
- Lost in '96”
― Scott Thompson

“I wish I didn’t think so much. I envy those who do not think.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96

“This isn't a dream, but a memory slipping in between the natural chemicals of the body and the thing that is more, the soul, two parts of the same that contradict to make a person. That stupor that comes after hours of not sleeping, not knowing the difference, the feeling of time moving slowly and quickly simultaneously, not much different from the stupor gifted by alcohol, but this sleepless yet dream-filled night is not a gift of alcohol, but a gift of the memory of the heart. Time passed that cannot be repeated but recorded, yet fuzzy, like my favorite VHS tape.
- Lost in '96”
― Scott Thompson

“Some books don’t have likable characters, like life.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96

“The people with the loudest radios have the worst taste in music.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96

“Cobain is not the voice of our generation. He’s the angst. He is our frustration. Our anger.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96

“God,”
― Scott Thompson, The Undoing of Reality

“Music you love is imprinted on all that is you, a tattoo of sorts that fades too deep into the skin to see but remains against the bone, a memory of youth or an important era of your life.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96

“She was beautiful and intelligent and good, but she left, so I kept her favorite book. The same one she read. The same one she touched.”
― Scott Thompson

“There’s a unique clarity that the fog of alcohol conveys; a spiritual plane that can only be reached through substance, as the body, which it numbs, creates interference to the more, unable to process what’s here and now.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96

“Southern women will steal your heart, and act like it was an accident.”
― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96