Please Don't Come Back from the Moon Quotes

“Like an eye, the moon follows us wherever we go.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon: A Novel

“Inexplicably, I felt a war was coming on, and for many nights I had dreams that I died in battle. I dreamed of mountains that crumbled and rivers that flooded. My dreams were apocalyptic and savage. I began to fear that I was a prophet and that I would soon be called upon to speak. I waited for God's voice.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

“I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

“Our old teachers, our neighbors, our ex-girlfriends, even some of our mothers, I think, began to believe we were without hope. And if you had been with us then, you might have said the same thing. You might have said that we were lost young men too, without goals or courage or aim.
But God, our hopes were high, our visions were glorious and moving. I bet if you could have stepped inside of our squirrelly heads for one minute and seen the impossible futures we were already imagining, well, then your heart would break. You'd weep.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

“We almost killed ourselves with rage. We would grow up trampling over things, tearing things down, and people would look at us and wonder why we had such violence in our hearts.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon