Songs on Endless Repeat Quotes

“Was there a difference between getting old and looking unhappy? That is, if you already were unhappy, would the age show up as anything different? Or was it that the older you got, the harder it was to keep unhappiness off your face?”
― Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

“You can only keep up the precarious act of sustaining this fantasy of a better world for so long when not much has actually changed in our favor. But as long as there's something new in our queue, after binging on a season or two, we can move on, forestalling a confrontation with the shallow, messy world we ultimately inhabit.”
― Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

“Once, when Molly was complaining that her roommate never left the apartment, that all this roommate did was rattle on and on about her undiagnosed anxiety, Darren joked that Molly's roommate had traded dependence on one Molly for another.”
― Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

“But—please, hear me out—don't you think difference breathes in the expanses that lie amid your monotonous thoughts? Even as you see in the future only suicide, your mind fosters so many novel meanings that are essential, rabbit holes leading to unknown hours and possibilities, and maybe if you wait, for just a bit longer, these meanings will bleed into your being, restructuring the reserves of your spirit, and maybe then, after a serious exploration of all that is true, you, my dear friend, will feel something akin to new.”
― Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

“We're minorities within minorities, I'd often repeat to my friend, in an attempt to subdue his frustration with the compounding obstacles of his life.”
― Anthony Veasna So, Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes