Melody > Melody's Quotes

“People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.”
― 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

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

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“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

“Clocks and calendars don’t work in Night Vale. Time itself doesn’t work.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“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 left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.”
― 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

“In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.”
― 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

“She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in the moment, and justified it to herself later, and in this way she was no different than anyone else she knew.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“It was a simpler time. Because I personally had less memories and so less to superimpose upon the world, and so it was much clearer, and also I was younger. Thus, the world was simpler.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“They were not good people—they had too much money to have ever been good people”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar