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“A lot of times when I think I’m being self-sufficient, I’m really just learning to live without the things that I need.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“Because I kept fucking up, because it seemed so hard to not fuck up, I lived a life where I had less than what I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“Maybe raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world and hoping that they loved them too.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“I started to care less about the future. I cared more about making the present tolerable.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“I wasn’t destined for greatness; I knew this. But I was figuring out how to steal it from someone stupid enough to relax their grip on it.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“The kids were happy. They had added another to their numbers. They didn't want to set the world on fire. They just wanted to be less alone in it.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.”
― The Family Fang
― The Family Fang
“From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it’s hard to summon it when you really need it.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes,” their father told them. “Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are.”
― The Family Fang
― The Family Fang
“This was what I finally realized, that even as we sank deeper and deeper into our lives, we were always separate. And I wondered what it would feel like, to fall but to hold on to someone else so you weren’t alone.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“I had never wanted kids, because I had never wanted a man to give me a kid. The thought of it, gross; the expectation of it. But if a hole in the sky opened up and two weird children fell to Earth, smashing into the ground like meteroites, then that was something I could care for. If it gleamed like it was radiating danger, I’d hold it. I would.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“I'm not joking when I say that I never liked people, because people scared me. Because anytime I said what was inside me, they had no idea what I was talking about. They made me want to smash a window just to have a reason to walk away from them. Because I kept fucking up, because it seemed so hard not to fuck up, I lived a life where I had less than what I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing, not even food or air. And if I wanted nothing, I'd just have to turn in to a ghost. And that would be the end of it.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“Something was ending. Even if it had been awful, my life was ending, and it felt like this wasn't my life anymore. It was someone else's. And I had decided that I'd just live inside it, see if anyone noticed, and maybe it would become mine. Maybe I would love it.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.”
― The Family Fang
― The Family Fang
“If there were a button that would end the world, and that button were right in front of me, I would have smashed it so hard at that moment. I often thought about a button like that, and when I did, I always knew that I'd push it.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“Things are bad and crazy and chaotic. But you ride it out and you don't let it hurt you, and then there's this stretch of time that is so calm and perfect. And that's what was always worth waiting for.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“Timothy's eyes kind of flashed with recognition, as if the seventeenth-century ghost who lived inside him had suddenly awakened.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them... You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.”
― Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
― Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
“For a second, there was that weird flicker in her eyes, that wickedness that I loved, that I wanted to live inside. A wicked child was the most beautiful thing in the world.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“The simplest things are the hardest to understand.”
― The Family Fang
― The Family Fang
“And then I got older, and, guess what? I still never felt right inside my body. I don't think I ever will. I was kind of flamed out everywhere I went, always got a little less than what I thought I'd get. But I guess that's okay. I think maybe it's necessary to feel like you're not quite settled, or maybe for some people it's necessary.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
“Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.”
― The Family Fang
― The Family Fang
“How did people protect themselves? How did anyone keep this world from ruining them?”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“I knew that whatever I chose would be the wrong thing. I knew that until I truly believed that whatever I did was the exact right thing, I’d keep doing the wrong thing.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“And I knew a secret to caring for someone, had learned it just this moment. You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
“Maybe that’s what children were, a desperate need that opened you up even if you didn’t want it.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“I guess I just mean that sometimes your mom says that things will be better for you in the future. And I think they will, Frankie. I think you're really smart and I think you'll do fine. But I also think it's not so bad if you never quite feel right in this world. It's still worth hanging around. You just have to look harder to find the things you love."
"Okay," I said. I kind of wanted to hug him.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"Okay," I said. I kind of wanted to hug him.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
