Seth King > Quotes

“Life's supposed to be a little hard. If your life is too easy, you're doing it wrong.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“If eyes are windows into the soul, books are rabbit holes into the imagination.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Let love destroy you. God knows life is going to anyway.”
― Seth King

“The love you left behind is so much greater than the regrets your departure created. You were more than worth the trouble. I pray I was too.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“You know, we all have scars, Summer. If yours are only on the outside, you should consider yourself lucky.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“You’re beautiful, and beautiful things don’t demand attention. It just gravitates to them.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Comparison is the enemy of happiness,”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Humans appeared on a watery rock spinning around a ball of flames suspended in the middle of an endless ocean of nothing, and yet you still don't believe in a miracle like love?”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“But for every epic love tale splashed out in lights for the world to see, there were ten million more couples that loved each other in the dark just as beautifully.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Life’s supposed to be hard. If your life is too easy, that means you’re doing it wrong.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Burying your feelings is like burying a lit match in a pile of gas cans – something has to blow eventually.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“You are so special and important and elegant and smart and kind and worthwhile, and you are so much better than me and everyone else I’ve ever known in every single way, and you are the only truth I have ever found in this lying world, and I love you to the floor of me, and it breaks me to imagine a future without you in it, and I just want you to know all that, just because.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“But whatever happened, I knew I’d always have this summer, and that first night on the pier under the stars, with the waves surging around us, when we both glowed. And armed with that, I was not afraid. This summer, and this life, had been a privilege. I was sure of that.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“His eyes locked with mine, and I drowned in them. That was odd. I always thought you could only drown in water, never humans.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“She was everywhere and nowhere and nothing and she was gone.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Whoever's reading this out there - you deserve to have someone's hands be glued to you, for their eyes to be stuck on you. You deserve for their face to catch on fire when they look at you, for them to lay eyes on you and devote the rest of their day to you. Don't ever let yourself settle for anything less than magic from Dumbledore's freakin' wand. That feeling - you know, that crazy, irrational, my-brain-won't-work-without-you, I'd-make-you-eggs-every-morning-for-the-rest-of-my-life - that feeling is the most important thing you will ever find. No matter what happens in this life, that feeling - that love - will keep you warm, and carry you through. So find that magic feeling and never let anythng take it away from you.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“Why do all the movies end with the couple running off into the sunset? That’s so boring. Where are the sad stories? That’s why I like Saviour, you know. Life isn’t neat, it’s dirty. I like to be reminded that fucked up stuff exists. It gives me…feelings. Doesn’t feeling stuff, even if it’s bad, make you remember that you’re…I don’t know, alive?”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“They called death the great equalizer, and it was – because in the rearview mirror, everyone was a hero.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Because I, Summer Johnson, Purveyor of Pragmatism, Lover of Logic, Ultimate Believer in the Rational, and Person Who Was Maybe Going To Die Soon, wanted to drown in someone.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“We don't get to choose how much time we get in this life, but we do get to choose how we spend it.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“This was just another side effect of him: he made me feel like I was being murdered by joy.”
― Seth King, Honesty

“Nothing matters, so everything matters. You can find joy in the nothingness, and silence in the chaos.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“The first thing I thought when I saw her was “Oh, fuck.” Forgive me, Lord, for I wanted to jump that girl’s bones immediately.”
― Seth King, The Goode Fight

“Love is the most adult action anyone could ever carry out in this emotionally stunted world, and once you love, the rest will fall into place. It has to.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“Everyone has issues. The key is finding someone whose issues mesh well with your issues.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“You have witnessed dysfunction all your life, and when you grow up, you are going to chase after it. You won’t even know it, not on the surface at least, but you will. You’ll search for people to fix, because that’s what you know - you thrive on chaos, even if you don't know it yet….”
― seth king, Honesty

“And if you ever feel yourself losing your way again,Cooper,and find that you just can't get your shit together,just reach out and love someone.Love is the most adult action anyone can ever carry out in this emotionally-stunted world,and once you love,the rest will fall into place.It has to.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains

“And maybe these were the remains of the loved ones we lost – not the bodies their souls cast aside on the journey to the other side of things, but those wonderful little bits of them embedded into all of us like stardust floating in the Milky Way, every smile every laugh every tear every whisper every shout every bit of love they ever emitted, little slivers of them that sank into us and reminded us that they were here. They may have been gone, but as surely as the dead of winter gave way to the sun-soaked glory of spring every year, they were here once, and Goddamnit, they had lived.”
― Seth King, The Summer Remains