The Neon Graveyard Quotes

“...lovers, even those who are married, always exist autonomously of one another, no matter how close they are or how long they've known each other. That's why jealously can flare in even the most intimate relationships.
Because you know that at some basic level this person exists separately from you. No mater how close you are, the landscape of their life is always tinted a different hue than your own." - Hunter to Joanna”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Neon Graveyard

“That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Neon Graveyard

“But no life was without it's strain & strife, not if it was fully lived. Opening up to experience, even the good ones like trust & love, was to open yourself up to the pain. I suppose the key was to not compound matters by making the rest of it unnecessarily hard. My need for control had certainly done that in the past. So I made a promise to myself in that moment.
I would make a concerted effort to reach for what was soft & good in this world. I'd find a place to settle into, and hold still so that this world's good and soft could reach back & touch me as well.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Neon Graveyard

“This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country populated by mistakes and a futile desire to turn back time for an impossible “do-over.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Neon Graveyard

“Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Neon Graveyard

“What would become of me if I was never truly seen again?" - Joanna”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Neon Graveyard

“I wasn’t heading toward a future I wanted as much as I was running away from one I didn’t.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Neon Graveyard

“Most people were oblivious to the luck already bestowed upon them. I’d certainly been guilty of it.”
― Vicki Pettersson, The Neon Graveyard