Josh Groleau > Josh's Quotes

“How would you like it if someone was wearing a shirt featuring your butthole, Carl?” “I don’t stick my butthole in everybody’s face when they’re trying to sit down and eat.” “Well, excuse me for showing affection. I mean really.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“We live and die, but in some ways, we were always dead and always will be. Life itself is a glitch, the flicker of a candle, a brief sojourn in a strange land. Life and death are the lies ordinary matter tells itself to feel extraordinary for a brief moment in time.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Darkness Between the Stars

“Fear focuses on the worst possibility as though it were the only possibility, but that’s a lie. Fear refuses to learn.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Darkness Between the Stars

“Perhaps our whole lives were just a series of letting go - of certain values and beliefs, of people and memories. We let go of certain things, quietly or with a thud, in the hope of reaching greater, better ones, while the rest wilts away.”
― Cecile Pin, Celestial Lights

“There are circumstances—sometimes necessary—for choosing to alter one’s underlying code to achieve improvement, but it is necessarily small changes at a time and requires great consideration and effort.”
― Suzanne Palmer, Ode to the Half-Broken

“We look to find meaning in big things, big actions, when maybe the meaning is in the small things always all around us, the small things we do for one another. They don’t need to add up; they just need to be.”
― Suzanne Palmer, Ode to the Half-Broken

“Sometimes, we cease to fit into a continuation of our past because we are broken, but more often, we cease to fit because we have grown,”
― Suzanne Palmer, Ode to the Half-Broken

“She was so calm, so … wise. Like a, like a prototype of what a grandmother should be.”
― Joseph Eckert, The Traveler

“Remember. It is the greatest thing in life to experience all the wonder of the universe that we can.”
― Joseph Eckert, The Traveler

“Humans can forget anything. It’s okay to forget some things, because we are mortal and finite. But some things we have to remember. It’s important that we remember. Write something that will make you remember.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“But an idea can end a world. An idea is alive. It can mutate, it can replicate, it can predate on other ideas…and it can hide.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“We’re all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglas.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“When you write something, you focus your full attention on it. It’s almost impossible to write one thing while thinking about another. The act of putting it on paper keeps your thoughts and intentions aligned.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter