“All this time he had lived for the future. The future had been the firm ground he stood on, and the present was only the slight haze in the air. But now he understood that the future was a joke without a punch line and that whatever he had in the present was what he would always have. He did not have much in the present.”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
“I never grow older.” “I guess we all thought that once.” The desert went on so far out into the distance that it was easy to imagine that it constituted the entire world.”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
“Dear, be kind to the mothers of Night Vale. Have pity on us. It’ll be no easier for Diane. Things go strange here. Your children forget you, and the courses of their lives get frozen. Or they change shapes every day, and they think that just because they look completely different you won’t be able to recognize them. But you always will. You always know your child, even when your child doesn’t know you.”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
“Sorry, listeners. I need to go make sure she’s all right. I take you now to the sound of a human stomach digesting, heavily amplified and electronically distorted.”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
“It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
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