Matt Rees > Quotes

“Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.”
― Matt Beynon Rees, The Collaborator of Bethlehem

“Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.”
― Matt Beynon Rees, The Collaborator of Bethlehem

“Every exhalation is an expulsion of some part of our finite store of life, and also a sigh of relief that the grave is closer by one tedious, depressing pulse...Each time we breathe, we fear that it's our last breath and it will chill us all the way to the void.”
― Matt Beynon Rees, The Collaborator of Bethlehem