Gabrielle Squailia > Quotes

“My family taught me, too, to begin every burial with these words, which my mother said were true of everyone who lives long enough to walk and talk—from the most honorable person lying here, down to the very worst.” He closed his eyes and touched his chest. “ ‘How they tried,’ ” said Rafe. “ ‘How long, how hard they tried.”
― Gabrielle Squailia, Viscera

“Absolutes are the hallucinations of culture.”
― Gabrielle Squailia, Viscera

“We all do strange things to keep ourselves from dying. And when it comes down to it, love, no one knows which of those things might lead us back to life.”
― Gabrielle Squailia, Viscera

“You're framing an inevitability as a choice. And what valor is there in failing to drown when you're strapped to a raft?”
― Gabrielle Squailia, Viscera

“The elders encourage diversity, once you jump through enough of their hoops,” said Siham, “but woe to the hoop-averse.” “How”
― Gabriel Squailia, Dead Boys

“A man's bones aren't his will, not his alone. Bones are will, period. The him in them is on loan, but the will itself belongs to the cloud. It's in the cloud that we can see the truth: our bones are just dust in the shape of a person, but sooner or later, by water, by wind, or by time alone, all of us, all of them, all things below the Earth will just be—dust!”
― Gabriel Squailia, Dead Boys