Patrick Roesle > Quotes

“Beyond the calmness settling where we sat, another breeze came upon the ashes and maples in the distance. They fell to strange murmurings and swayings, as though their own verdancy were too much for them to hold. Summer was here. The world never seemed so large and abundant, so rich with possibility. It felt as though it were all spilling into us until we were flooded through and brimming over with an electrifying greenness. Stacy trembled in my arms. It was too good to be real. It was perfect. I couldn’t have asked for more.”
― Patrick Roesle, The Zeroes

“Strange how yesterday’s triumphs should unexpectedly visit us to compound and mock today’s failures.”
― Patrick Roesle, The Zeroes

“Nostalgia is the falsest and most maudlin of all joys, and the only people who truly deserve it are suckers of this world. But I can’t change what I did any more than I can change how I feel. I am not ashamed.”
― Patrick Roesle, The Zeroes

“There was no need for him to communicate what he was feeling. I knew him well enough, and I knew the feeling well enough. It was expectancy and illimitable confidence. It was the green – the sense that you’re riding a current in the right direction, that the universe is fundamentally good and perpetually improving.”
― Patrick Roesle, The Zeroes

“Time flies when you’re having fun is something everyone likes saying, and everyone’s right. But it’s equally true – though less often remarked – that time flies when all the variety has left your life and the present becomes a kind of quicksand pit in which each new today is just a continuation of the last today and tomorrow is an extension of a yesterday that was no different from today.”
― Patrick Roesle, The Zeroes