August Thompson > Quotes

“I would give anything to change the nature of the world, even if I could change it just for you.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“We can take it slow; we can move fast. You can leave me and come back. You can be exactly who you are or you can be what you've always wanted to be. You can sell that gold twisted band, and we can find a studio in Queens, and I can cut your hair every other month. Let's live off rice and beans, oranges when they're in season. Let's make friends and forget them for days and weeks at a time. Let's ward off all of the terror with talk. Let's make love over and over, until our ribs hurt and we think we're tired of it, then do it once more, just to see if there's still life to be made.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“It’s all here, it’s now if we want it to be. Time, distance, they’re no longer the problem. The problem is courage. The courage I need and the courage you want. We can find it in each other, I swear. I swear, if you’ll just let me show you.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“I thought about how change brews for months, maybe years, then arrives in a moment.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“Build in me a lighthouse. Be guided by the love I feel for you”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe. I mean shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were.—C.C. Baxter from Billy Wilder’s The Apartment”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“I can’t believe I’m telling you this—from an acquaintance I would have forgotten about completely if it weren’t for the internet’s insistence on keeping people around.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“I was used to that strange pining then, where I was more interested in the beauty of boys than girls because I wished so badly that I were them”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“Do all obituaries play it safe, or do some become honest—“ he bled out slowly, wishing for death”? Do obituaries ever have a sense of humor—“ Jake died as he lived, staying up all night and fucking around”?”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“Once the women were gone, I was left with men and I was left with boys. Men and boys never made me feel comfortable. I wasn’t allowed to observe—I had to do. I had to fight, or I had to play shortstop, or I had to hold the flashlight or do push-ups or break glass. I had no interest in doing. I was almost completely defeated by simply being.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“As I entered the house with a newcomer, I felt anxiety overtake me. It was such an imprecise, destructive emotion. Suddenly, all I could think was that everything was built to be broken.”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“I was someone with a borrowed personality. Lou would see that I’d taken Jake’s chameleonisms and swagger and even stolen and modified a couple of his go-to jokes and realize that I was an unperson”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost

“This may sound dumb to you”
― August Thompson, Anyone's Ghost