Tim McBain > Quotes

“So, here I am. Awake in the dark , twisting the knife in my wounds. What a goddamn delight life really is.”
― Tim McBain, Fade to Black

“It all started in Florida. Of course. Fucking Florida.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“That's the funny thing about life - getting over the fear of death is the hard part. After that, it's easy.”
― Tim McBain, Fade to Black

“There are moments in life when two paths lie before you,” he said. “Moments where you pick your path and you can never go back. So take a good look at what you’ve got, on the inside and on the outside, before you make the choice, because everything you’ve got, all of it — that’s what you stand to lose if you pick wrong.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“She felt the pull of sleep urging her to close her eyes. It reminded her of standing on the beach when she was a kid, and how the waves would lap over her feet. As the water retreated, the sand around her toes drained away with it, and the magnetic draw of the tide tugged at her feet.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“There were no words for the weight these memories piled on his shoulders and chest, no words to capture the sense of great fortune and misfortune he felt all at once, a mix of the best and worst luck—the best in knowing her at all, the worst in having her torn away”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“I presume other people find some form of comfort in being in a room full of strangers, being waited on and all of that. I guess it’s like a social activity for them. When I’m in a room full of random people, though, I’m looking for exits.”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“tea-monade”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“Glenn reads some book about war. For real. I can almost remember the title, but wait, that’s right. I died of boredom before I could finish reading the cover.”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“It’s like I always say: Perverts. Can’t live with ‘em. Could pretty easily live without ‘em.”
― Tim McBain, Back in Black

“pretty frequently regarding this matter, as in: What the eff? Mardy”
― Tim McBain, Fade to Black

“But deep down she knew, the meek did not inherit. The meek got eaten by the monsters, until eventually there were only monsters left.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“The majority of the businesses around here seem to advertise that they buy gold, have guns for sale or both. And the locals I’ve happened across seem like the types that traded all of their gold for guns some time ago.”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“Don’t look directly into it,” Glenn says. Immediately, I look directly into it.”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“Hope for the best, prepare for the anal leakage.”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“Alone is alone, I guess, whether you’re surrounded by everyone or no one.”
― Tim McBain, Back in Black

“It almost feels like watching aliens pretend to be human. Sometimes”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“Greasy burgers and fries washed down with Coke -- a fitting end, perhaps, to a life where he never really tried. Never tried to accomplish anything great, anything meaningful to even him, let alone anyone else. It was a fast food life, lived for convenience, lived without regard for much beyond finding comfort, shoving empty calories into his face to try to feel better about the emptiness all around. And”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“flash through my head. When I remember that fog it makes me feel sad in a way that doesn’t really make sense. Like I’ve lost something. I don’t remember things going black this time, which bothers me. I know the seizures are happening more frequently. Maybe they are coming on quicker, too.”
― Tim McBain, Fade to Black

“Relax,” Glenn calls from the other room. “I can’t,” I say. He may as well tell someone that just got stabbed to “Quit bleeding!”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“It’s like having a dimmer switch for reality.”
― Tim McBain, Fade to Black

“I feel like I should be able to float away from this. I should be able to drift off to some other plane because this one is too painful for me to exist in. Because no one should have to feel this way. I know other people must, but I think they can just forget it or something. It always sticks with me, though. It marks me up good.”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“What if I’m just a sick animal? A creature shuffled into existence here by the random whims of evolution. Nothing more. An existence totally without inherent meaning, totally without purpose. What”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“Maybe it was a waste of time, or maybe it was a final real meal with his boys. Like being on death row. Greasy burgers and fries washed down with Coke -- a fitting end, perhaps, to a life where he never really tried.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“How could he let consciousness go? It was all he knew, all he’d ever known. The idea of pulling a trigger and vanquishing it? Of shutting off his brain? Of black nothing forever”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“a montage of images playing in his head with the saturation turned way up so the colors were brighter than real life.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“Words pop into my head: Fine Corinthian leather. For some reason, one part of my brain finds it highly amusing to think such mundane things in stressful moments. The rest of my brain, however, wants that part to die in a fire. As”
― Tim McBain, Awake in the Dark Box Set

“juicy as hell in here, and it smells like liquid ass.”
― Tim McBain, Fade to Black

“Maybe life isn't some grand narrative with a spectacular ending like you might want. It's a series of moments. They might seem too random to add up to mean something huge, but they each mean the world on their own.”
― Tim McBain, Fade to Black

“I’ve perpetually found myself convinced that I can’t live a life that makes sense without understanding my imminent death and making a real effort to incorporate the idea of mortality into my worldview. I feel like if I don’t connect with that, my life gets lost in a series of fast food moments – my actions and relationships and thoughts veer toward easy answers, perpetual consumption, comfort and convenience valued above all else with no sense of meaning underneath. I forget to hold onto the passion of being alive, falling into taking it for granted, into that grind of production and consumption that becomes daily life. Everything becomes easy, neat, packaged, tidy, thoughtless. Every day becomes the same thing, the same color and shape and taste, like life itself should come with fries if you want them. And”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead