Dark Ride Quotes

“Two dudes in line behind me argue loudly and irately first about some quarterback, then about some politician, then about Sonic hamburgers vs. Whataburger hamburgers. It must be exhausting to have so many strong opinions. I only have mild preferences, and usually not even that.”
― Lou Berney, Dark Ride

“You’re going along, everything’s fine,” she says, even more softly, her thumb digging and digging. “You’re worried about all the little things, the usual things. And then you look up and you don’t understand where you are. You don’t understand how you got there.”
― Lou Berney, Dark Ride

“Getting what you need from a conversation,” she says, “it’s tricky.” “Okay.” “Because every conversation, every person you talk to, is different. You don’t go to France and speak Japanese, do you?” “No. But how—” “You have to pay attention. You have to keep paying attention. The most dangerous thing in the world is a first impression.”
― Lou Berney, Dark Ride

“I’m not a person, anymore, who gives up. Knock me on my ass and I will get back up. And maybe next time you won’t knock me on my ass, because, remember, I’m not going to make the same mistake twice.”
― Lou Berney, Dark Ride

“The dumbest thing you can do, if you’re someone like me, is believe you can be more than you are.”
― Lou Berney, Dark Ride

“This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse where hurting kids with the glowing tip of a cigarette falls far beyond the boundaries of the human imagination. But I don’t and it’s not.”
― Lou Berney, Dark Ride

“The weed makes me feel like I'm being gently removed from this moment by a big rubber eraser.”
― Lou Berney, Dark Ride