Anthony Killeen > Quotes

“You see monks with their calming robes and shiny golden heads and assume they’re all beings of pure eternal tranquility, but then you see some outside a monastery smoking cigarettes glued to their phones and you remember everyone’s on a journey.”
― Anthony Killeen, The Wanderer: Last Days in Nepal

“Sitting down to read a book today is an act of rebellion. A rebellion against Big Algorithm. Against the Short Attention Span illuminati, who if have their way, will make every book a banned book.”
― Anthony Killeen, The Wanderer: Last Days in Nepal

“Wherever you go, there’s your wireless crack at the tap of an airplane mode.”
― Anthony Killeen, The Wanderer: Last Days in Nepal

“It’ll probably even take a few minutes for our audacious bodacious book nutter brains to get what’s going on here. To get onboard with the slower pace found in book land.
They’re used to the fast life after all.
Our brains are used to blistering 50 meme-a-minute scrolling speeds, always and forever chasing that next hit of methamphetamemes.”
― Anthony Killeen, The Wanderer: Last Days in Nepal

“Life always feels best when it feels like a novel. Living life like it’s worth writing about.”
― Anthony Killeen, The Wanderer: Last Days in Nepal

“They say we’re the sum of the five people we hang around with most. At least that’s what the five people I hang around with keep telling me anyway. They won’t stop banging on about it. Sum of us! Sum of us!”
― Anthony Killeen, The Wanderer: Last Days in Nepal