Hazel Woods > Quotes

“Where is the absolution of religion now? Morality is not negotiable, Hensley. Unleashing a war machine in order to end a war? An absurd Olympics of semantic excuses. Ludicrous.”
― Hazel Woods, This Is How I'd Love You

“God is and always has been a substitute for true belief. For sacrificing and forsaking ego in the service of real & actual good. God feeds men’s egos, giving them more self- importance than they deserve. If, in fact, there were a God who was almighty and all- knowing, this being would not tolerate humans speaking for him. The fact that religion requires belief above rationality renders it useless to me. God, it seems, is actually the antithesis of thought, which is what I hold sacred.”
― hazel woods, This Is How I'd Love You

“Had they known how life would become a dark, narrow hole in which they would sleep less than they ever thought possible, hardly ever see a horizon without smoke or fire corroding its edges, eat turnips and potatoes that have been boiled into a bitter white mash at nearly every meal, they might have enjoyed even more those empty days that began with overly salted sausage and sweet jam, were filled with long walks across tangled, abandoned vines and beneath thick groves of apple trees, and ended with cognac, a piece of Toblerone, and the BBC on the wireless.”
― Hazel Woods, This Is How I'd Love You

“To the shore, to the lake, to anyplace where there are waves and ice cream and umbrellas.”
― Hazel Woods, This Is How I'd Love You

“Despite her best efforts, she's still just a girl whose heart has been broken.”
― Hazel Woods, This Is How I'd Love You

“We are the serious ones. The first. The bravest. The ones who will represent America as it should be.”
― Hazel Woods, This Is How I'd Love You