Rasmenia Massoud > Quotes

“I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch about.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

“Maybe I should find another doctor; one who realizes the importance of scars.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, You Don't See Any of This

“The problem with comprehension is, it often comes too late.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It’s so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most “normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“It’s strange how easy it was, once we tried, to just spend time being broken together.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“Whatever it is that you know, or that you don’t know, tell me about it. We can exchange tirades. The comma is my favorite piece of punctuation and I’ve got all night.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“It’s the way people look at you when they know you’re damaged, but don’t know how to react to knowing a thing like that.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

“Junie says that the worst thing about shame is the way it chains you down. The way it holds your mind hostage and won’t let you go, gnawing from the inside out, feeding on you like a parasite.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, You Don't See Any of This

“I know what death smells like. Death smells like gasoline, singed hair and fingernails.
It smells like cooking meat. My meat.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“It isn't fair the way memory twists up the things it shows you.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“I thought about how I had now let a self-proclaimed lunatic into my house twice and considered the possibility that my life needed sorting out.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“That’s the problem with things dying. They’re stuck being dead forever while everything else evolves and makes new stories.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, You Don't See Any of This

“People like to put their paranoia on you to keep you from having the fun they’re afraid to have themselves.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“There are no mirrors of any kind in here. If there were, I’d want to smash them, but I wouldn’t. Instead, I’d probably just stare at them, giving myself negative affirmations.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned had been pulled from its rightful place and had been meticulously sliced into countless pieces. One thing was painfully obvious to me: these clothes were symbolic of me; they represented my body.

What you really wanted was to slice me into countless pieces.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can’t exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. It’s different for old men. We have more old wounds from these dreams.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

“When I start something, I can never finish it. I just can’t dedicate myself to wanting or doing a thing for an extended period of time like that. I get started doing and before I reach the halfway mark, I’m wanting something else. But, really, it’s not me, it’s everything moving around me, changing and wreaking havoc on my wants. I decided it's easier to stop starting things because it’s impossible to keep up with the world, the way it constantly throws new stuff at you.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“How nice that must be, to blend in with unexceptional people in that banal, work-a-day banter. Like regular people.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“We just didn’t want to go home, where we would be surrounded by what we truly are and all that we pretended to be, facing what we might never reach.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“I don’t know how to find the future, or where to start looking for it.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“Every morning, my hangover feels like being born again. My head throbs, like being squeezed and pushed out, fists trembling, throat grunting and wailing in protest of the light, screaming for the comfort of warm, dark silence.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, You Don't See Any of This

“There’s nothing the dead can tell you that the living can’t,” he’d said to me. “World is indifferent to your feelings. World has no responsibility and no reasons why a serial killer can randomly create orphans and then disappear, and no antipathy for assholes who get drunk and kill, then go free a couple of years later. You gotta look for joy, not reasons and explanations.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within