Shawn Alff

“How to explain that we all show up to this party with no invite and no apparent host, and we can depart from it at any moment for no reason?”
― Stephen Markley, Ohio

“No matter where you went or how novel it seemed when you first pulled into town, it always turned into the same bars, same food, same women, same politics, same liquor, same drugs, same troubles.”
― Stephen Markley, Ohio

“The only way to do better, to have better, is to lose pieces of what was. It's inevitable that you can't bring everything with you, like carrying water in your cupped hands from one river to another. There are too many cracks, and if you're so eager to move, you'll just have to get used to new water.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“All things built by humans descend into the same pitfalls: loathing, vitriol, malicious intent. All the things we build in order to communicate, to connect, to find people like us so we feel less alone, and to find people not like us at all so we learn how to adapt, end up turning against us. Avoiding human nature at its most pure and even at its worst is pointless. No one deserves your attention, but no one has earned your withdrawal.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter