Jamie Mason > Quotes

“Most nightmares are caged in their realm by implausibilities. The sleeper slogs through quicksand in a fun house of frightening nonsense and disjointed mumbo jumbo. But everything’s all better once the bedside lamp is back on, because reality, even when it’s bad, is easily distinguished from night terror. Except for the trying-to-scream dream. That one’s pretty much spot-on.”
― Jamie Mason

“If home is where the heart is, Jason has lived in his throat for a long time.”
― Jamie Mason

“Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn’t matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.”
― Jamie Mason

“Now I realize that everything you need for measuring a person can be found in the nature of what he chooses to hide from everyone else. That's all you need to know to gauge his goodness.”
― Jamie Mason

“If home is where the heart is, Jason had lived in his throat for a long time.”
― Jamie Mason

“Some spiritual people say there's no such thing as coincidence. And I guess I can't know if it's the chicken or the egg for my lack of spirituality. But I do believe in coincidence. I believe in it very much. I see it everywhere. I have to. Otherwise I'd start to believe the universe if adversarial, and I don't need another opponent right now.”
― Jamie Mason, Monday's Lie

“I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way.”
― Jamie Mason, Monday's Lie

“Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.”
― Jamie Mason, Monday's Lie

“There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“No disaster can stay shiny and new forever. No worry has ever been invented that the mind cannot bully down into mere background noise.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“Then Jason felt a brief statistical curiosity over how many people died annually because they couldn’t move when they should. He couldn’t think as far away as his feet, and they weren’t going anywhere on their own. It seemed that the internal conflict should have screamed in his head like a sold-out theater on fire, but in practice it felt stupidly bovine, like shoveling in more dull food when you were already full.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“They say God gives us no more than we can handle. That is either an horrendous lie or the loosest possible definition of the word handle.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“... feiten zijn feiten. Zelfs als niemand ze kent.”
― Jamie Mason

“Evolution had brought us out of the trees, then culture had neutered the beast, but even a eunuch can get angry.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“There is nothing supernatural. There are only the things in this world that we understand, the things that we don't understand, and made up crap.” The last part of that saying was always the best bit. “Pray at the alter of each of these things, my darlings.” She would be smirking by then.” They all work in their own way.”
― Jamie Mason, Monday's Lie

“The forest grows ferns and trees; it cultivates mushrooms and spores; it fosters its creatures from nothingness to more of the mulchy same. And for Jason, the seeds of backbone, of entitlement, were nurtured in the fertile hollow that had dropped the bottom out of civilized advancement. The forest insisted. It pushed back. At some sudden swell of that’s-enough, it emphatically refused to be overrun by bullying machinery and someone else’s idea of what it should be.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full