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“And then she was gone like a fuckin' sunset crashing into the horizon. All that remained was a thousand-foot tidal wave of emotions I've been running away from ever since.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“As he continued to explain why I shouldn't believe in a higher power, I looked out the window, watching the landscape rush by like missed opportunities.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“At that moment, I saw my sister as a child, taking her first steps toward the man who loved her forever. It's a tough thing being a parent and even harder being a child without perspective, only expectations.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“The Hamburglar strikes again! I thought as I stood on the sidewalk blocks away from the bank, as sirens pierced the sky — laughing like a lunatic.
The fucking black hat, man. What the fuck was that guy thinking? Dressed in a prison jump suit, donning a Zorro-esque sombrero. What was more insane? Me robbing a bank with a BB gun or a fucking fictitious character dead-set on ripping off a fast food chain? I digress. You can come to your own conclusion.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
The fucking black hat, man. What the fuck was that guy thinking? Dressed in a prison jump suit, donning a Zorro-esque sombrero. What was more insane? Me robbing a bank with a BB gun or a fucking fictitious character dead-set on ripping off a fast food chain? I digress. You can come to your own conclusion.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“The last thing I wanted was for my father to die with a broken heart. Lying there on a hospital bed alone, waiting for time to expire, overwhelmed by suffocating loneliness, his eyes fixed on the entryway, begging God to give him one more worldly moment with the people he loved. ”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“It's one of our first memories, you know? Holding the hands of the ones we love as they walk us through this seemingly unexplainable life. It’s here, in moments like these, that we acknowledge the presence of security. Feelings of love and hope lifting us over peaks of unavoidable, strenuous heartache. And isn't that what it's all about? ”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“The Hamburglar strikes again! I thought as I stood on the sidewalk blocks away from the bank, as sirens pierced the sky — laughing like a lunatic.
The fucking black hat, man. What the fuck was that guy thinking? Dressed in a prison jump suit, donning a Zorro-esque sombrero. What was more insane? Me robbing a bank with a BB gun or a fucking fictitious character dead-set on ripping off a fast food chain? I digress. You can come to your own conclusions.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
The fucking black hat, man. What the fuck was that guy thinking? Dressed in a prison jump suit, donning a Zorro-esque sombrero. What was more insane? Me robbing a bank with a BB gun or a fucking fictitious character dead-set on ripping off a fast food chain? I digress. You can come to your own conclusions.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“Beneath all of his psycho-babble rhetoric, I saw a lonely child. I saw myself. I realized that everyone ages physically, but few of us ever grow mentally and physically in unison. One seems to outgrow the other. Most of us are kids stranded in abused bodies.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“I didn't leave you guys with anything," he said, staring up at the ceiling with swollen red eyes, holding back the urge to fall apart.
"That's not true," my sister let out with her cheek firmly pressed against his chest, struggling to prevent her voice from shifting up an octave. "You showed us love and restraint in a house of chaos. You left us with hope.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
"That's not true," my sister let out with her cheek firmly pressed against his chest, struggling to prevent her voice from shifting up an octave. "You showed us love and restraint in a house of chaos. You left us with hope.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“It's one of our first memories, you know? Holding the hands of the ones we love as they walk us through this seemingly unexplainable life. It’s here — in moments like these, we acknowledge the presence of security — feelings of love and hope lifting us over peaks of unavoidable, strenuous heartache. And isn't that what it's all about? ”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“I was staying at the Empress Hotel in La Jolla, drinking overpriced cocktails at the windowless bar beside the lobby. I became friendly with the bartender Mildred. She had an English accent and looked eighty. Smoke billowed from her hideous mouth like an old coal-powered locomotive trying to survive the turn of the century. ”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“We sat in silence as we drove through Oregon. Miles of evergreen trees towered beneath an ageless sky. A pale blue face filled with soft white and gray streaks. It was the essence of winter's end in the first month of spring.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“As he continued to explain why I shouldn't believe in a higher power, I looked out the window, and watched the landscape rush by like missed opportunities.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“It's one of our first memories, you know? Holding the hands of the ones we love as they walk us through this seemingly unexplainable life. It’s here, in moments like these, that we acknowledge the presence of security. Feelings of love and hope lifting us over peaks of unavoidable, strenuous heartache. And isn't that what it's all about?”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“was staying at the Empress Hotel in La Jolla, drinking overpriced cocktails at the windowless bar beside the lobby. I became friendly with the bartender Mildred. She had an English accent and looked eighty. Smoke billowed from her hideous mouth like an old coal-powered locomotive trying to survive the turn of the century. ”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
“The last thing I wanted was my father to die with a broken heart. Lying there on a hospital bed alone, waiting for time to expire, overwhelmed by suffocating loneliness. With his eyes fixed on the entryway, begging God to give him one more worldly moment with the people he loved.”
― Wake Me Up When I Die
― Wake Me Up When I Die
