Anthony Muni Jr. > Quotes

“This is the day I begin to hate winter. The snow is a burden, stained brown and black and piled high on the shoulder of the road, eventually freezing into chunks of sharp ice. Rock salt on the road clings to the paint of cars and gives them a ghostly veneer. Pine trees lie between garbage cans with slivers of Christmas tinsel still clinging to the needles, reminding me that the New Year has only just begun. And even when the sky is clear and free of clouds, the sunshine only illuminates dead, brown trees and empty flower beds. This is the day I wish the year would end in November and skip to March.
Icicles hang from the grill of my”
― Anthony Muni Jr., Honestly, I'm Fine

“On Saturday, I told Jamie that I wanted to die. “I think about it all the time.” I confessed. She was hurt, but I couldn’t understand why, I was the one hurting, wasn’t I?”
― Anthony Muni Jr., The Seventy-Nine Series

“With Rae’s hand in mine, I pull her through the crowd behind me, pushing and shoving anyone in the way. Someone elbows me in the ribs, another kicks the back of my knee, causing me to stumble forward. With fire in my eyes, I regain my balance and prepare to set everyone ablaze. Rae tells me to forget about it and pushes me forward. A circle has formed around the fighters, two skinny blonde kids. One bounces up and down in nothing but a t-shirt, while the other drinks from a forty ounce can of Coors Light. The crowd waits impatiently for the first swing. They taunt, they squeal. What an audience.
Violence will solve this; someone was insulted and the person responsible will pay the consequences with however much abuse his body can take. What their knuckles and knees say will be louder than anything from their mouths or minds.”
― Anthony Muni Jr., Honestly, I'm Fine

“Violence is the reason we rubberneck driving past car collisions on the highway, the reason we stand on our tiptoes from behind police barricades, the reason we blink less and breathe more when a building is engulfed in flames. The almighty conversation, however, is what truly keeps us watching, each and every one of us is searching for a story to tell over the dinner table. You’ll never guess what I saw today… and everyone’s attention is on you, at least for a little while.”
― Anthony Muni Jr., Honestly, I'm Fine