LJ Pemberton > Quotes

“Breakups and divorces, disappointments
and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I
began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just
practice for the eternal separation between the
living and the dead. As with any loss, it is not the
dead who suffer, but the steady flaming fools left
behind.”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

“I have always been good at lying because the lies I tell are goals I haven’t committed to.”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

“We were together and not.”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

“We clung to New York like it could give us
purpose, make our lives bigger and more
significant by proxy. Or maybe we just wanted an
otherwhere with fewer ghosts and more chances
to rise and fail.”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

“What is worn ironically among us is ambition; what is concomitant is the surety of our imposture, imposters, in the darkness, and I smile at the wood-hung ceiling, and I forget I should still be nervous about the night.”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

“She wore her hustle the same as Marilyn wore her femme drag.
Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so
captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always want to
believe”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive