Emma > Emma's Quotes

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

“Fear is a reasonable response to life.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.”
― Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale

“She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“She left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Are we living a life that is safe from harm?

Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Sleep is confusing. Dreams are baffling. The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Sometimes it is easy to forget which things in the world can feel pain and which cannot.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Almost always we are all experiencing the same problems as everyone else,” said Josie, “and pretending we don’t so that every one of us thinks we are alone.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“You say your life is unraveling. Your life cannot unravel. Your life is your life. You haven't lost it. It's just different now”
― Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale

“To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“We are skipping Friday this week, but we’ll make up for it by having Double Friday next week. Mark your schedules.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.”
― joseph fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“I don’t know who I am and I don’t understand the progression of time as it relates to me,” said Jackie. Leann nodded. “We’ve all been there.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“It would be safe to assume that the house is an enclosed structure owned and built by people. It would be weird to assume that the house has a personality, a soul. Why would anyone assume that? It is true. It does. But that was weird to assume that. Never assume that kind of thing.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Her body no longer felt young. All of her energy had been robbed from her. She felt old, looked young, was neither.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“I’m not afraid,” she declared, and she wasn’t. She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“You, of course, should always chant when you wash your hands. It is only hygienic.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Pepsi: Drink Coke.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“You believe in mountains, right? Not everyone does.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Of course, angels do not exist. It is illegal to consider their existence, or even to give them a dollar when they forget bus money and start hovering around the Ralphs asking for change.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“One day we will destroy the moon with indifference!”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“If we cannot be judged on our actions, then we cannot be judged.”
― Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome to Night Vale

“It is a terrible, terrible beauty that I do not understand.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale