Liam Pieper > Quotes

“family is a group of people thrown together by fate who become weirder and weirder until nobody else can understand them.”
― Liam Pieper, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir

“We die alone, yes, but we are born alone too, so the people who enrich our lives are gifts, whether they are here for a lifetime or just a few moments. The trick is not to forget that.”
― Liam Pieper, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir

“The turning points in life, the really important decisions, are rarely dramatic. The first time someone tries heroin isn’t life-altering, but the three-hundredth time, the time their heart stops, sure is. Every human is an unwieldy vessel, weighed down with hopes and dreams. We turn so slowly that we don’t even realise we are moving at all. We creatures of habit, our momentum is all-consuming. For every action there are consequences we could never anticipate; it’s how we grow, each of us, from worms into butterflies, flapping our wings and making tornadoes on the other side of the world.”
― Liam Pieper, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir

“The main problem with medicating your grief with drugs is that it doesn’t help.”
― Liam Pieper, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir

“Whenever I’m at my darkest, I remember that there is goodness in the world. That there is pain and hardship and foolishness and misery, but that is what it is to be human. Now, whenever I get down, I remember that my life will pass in an instant, and I remember the value of the sacred, transient miracle of the heart beating in my chest, each moment impossibly precious, and that today, maybe today, Ponchik will pay me back my $600.”
― Liam Pieper, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir

“If ever there was a spirit animal for the writer, it is the cat: vain, spoiled, disloyal, lazy but predatory; forever discontented, even if it looks to be purring; endlessly fascinating, to itself at least, and to those who go for that sort of thing.”
― Liam Pieper, Mistakes Were Made

“They say there are no atheists at the end of a gun.”
― Liam Pieper, The Toy Maker

“If you’ve suffered an immense tragedy, a two-fisted, world-ending tragedy like losing a child, you never really get over it, in a way that most people can’t understand.”
― Liam Pieper, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year: A Memoir

“I am Russian, after all. Without some kind of angst we feel lonely.”
― Liam Pieper, The Toy Maker