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“You live your life, and then at the end you have to look back on it. You can either accept it or you can’t, but either way, you die with it behind you.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“It is one of the universe's deepest and cruelest jokes that it takes a lifetime to learn the lessons you need in order to live.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Everything is irrelevant. Everything is important.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“I grew up at the end of the world, and all that mattered was what was for dinner.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“I got to have a little taste of a sweet, tender innocence that, when you look back at that time as a whole, seems entirely absent from the world.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Memory is malleable. History is mutable. All I can do is try to make sure my story isn’t lost.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Once you believe that the end of the world has begun, you are complicit in its destruction.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“like the whole of the world—I needed a new beginning, a new way of thinking, a fresh approach to how to be human”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“I have known death all my life. I fear it, course. But it is familiar. Death is a stray dog I have taken in and fed, not because I love it but because I don't want it biting me out of hunger.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“They rail against authority if only to assert their own existence.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“We are all the descendants of societies we cannot understand.”
― Janina Matthewson, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“It is hard to stop yourself from developing affection for people, even when all your past experiences have taught you how dangerous it is.”
― Janina Matthewson, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“It was the idea of these people thinking of her when she wasn't around. Having ideas about her, probably picturing her face as she unwrapped the present. It was intrusive. It didn't matter that it was an attack of love, it was still an ambush.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“White southerners feasted on nostalgia, even the manufactured kind.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“Didn’t really mean to but when you hit someone in the head fifty or sixty times with a can of beans, it’s kind of unavoidable.”
― Patrick C. Harrison III, Grandpappy

“...or pouring peroxide onto the blood and watching it fizz and pop like champagne. Remedy could be a celebration, if she ignored the sting.”
― Tiffany Morris, Green Fuse Burning

“All he says, his voice soft and reverent and broken all the way through, is, "God was stronger than me when he made Adam and didn’t fall in love with him.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“Agreement is on the tip of Evander’s tongue, because his reward for compliance is always a fond smile.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“The history of the world is written in dying bodies and those who have to pick up afterwards.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“It’s a needed reminder of who you are, of what truly matters. Because it’s your life and there’s still time to write it.”
― John Kenney, I See You've Called in Dead

“He’s a … he’s a dear friend,” I continued, “who I’ve never told how much I love. And when I first started my job with him and his annoying office habits, he said to me, he said, ‘The good news is that someone died today.’ I thought he was joking. He later explained that this thing we do, the writing of these things, the celebration of someone’s life, it’s a gift, a reminder. What death dares us to do, is celebrate it. To celebrate the gift of life in its fleeting face.” I looked down at my speech, at the last line, and smiled. I took the pages, folded them in half, and put them in my jacket pocket. “Here we are, as Tim would have said, all of us, on this lovely day, alive. What are we going to do with that?”
― John Kenney, I See You've Called in Dead

“How rude of the dead to die. How selfish. Wherever they are, no pain, in eternal darkness or wondrous afterlife. And here we are, tears streaming down our cheeks, the knotted stomach and clammy palms, a feeling akin to falling, in a dream that won’t end.”
― John Kenney, I See You've Called in Dead

“This … miracle that is existence. Which we layer with so much. With anxiety and fear and greed and smallness and what’s next and hurry up and I’ve got a meeting and all the … stuff … that gets in the way. I’m not saying we should all go live like a monk. I’m saying that if you haven’t lived the life you want, if you haven’t loved life, then at the end, I think a deep and very sad regret comes over you. But if you have, if you’ve lived well … friends and family and … if you’ve lived … then just as true is the peace you feel.”
― John Kenney, I See You've Called in Dead

“Because in those news items from Seattle or wherever are the stories of people's lives and deaths and they matter. The facts matter. Because otherwise their lives didn't matter.”
― John Kenney, I See You've Called in Dead

“All I’m saying is that trauma doesn’t get you a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free card. It also doesn’t necessarily confer wisdom, or the right to pontificate,”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“It's incredible to me that you're still getting mileage out of your mother's suicide. You're still using it as currency, even though it has nothing to do with what you did. In fact, It's kind of psychotic that you're spending that currency on this moment. When will it run out?”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“Why not say that you made a choice, that you knew what you were doing was wrong, and that you did it anyway? Why continue coasting on your trauma? It's not a good look at your age.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“HUMAN EXISTENCE IS SUFFERING. THE ROOT OF SUFFERING IS DESIRE. THE ROOT OF DESIRE IS IMAGINATION.”
― Bothayna Al-Essa, The Book Censor's Library

“He just wanted to look like someone who hadn't been touched in vioence.”
― Veronica Roth, Seek the Traitor's Son