NVSQVAM Quotes

“If he was going to kill himself, why not do something fun? Snort a fistful of heroin and jump off a building, or at least bomb the Academy Awards.”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“Behind the lawns, sagging old farmhouses with tie-dyes and college flags in the windows vomited beer cans toward the gutter; Soviet-looking rows of prefab town houses belched small children into the sunshine.”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“If I ever get that hairy,” he mumbled, “I’m going to swallow every bottle in the science lab.”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“Everyone knows that philanthropy is repaid by the cosmos with disaster.”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“They didn’t even know what they were saying. They were simply finding fault so they could feel like they were doing their job.”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“He wondered what on earth had made him suppose that academics would play straighter than the rest of the world—that they would be fair, that they would be sincerely devoted to learning, that they would float proudly above the physical plane instead of playing games to distract their pain monitors from the ravages of baldness, menopause, irritable bowel syndrome, impending deafness, having drunk too much for alcohol to work anymore, outgrown miniskirts, and erectile dysfunction …”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“Yeah, great idear. Get over the past so you can start your normal, healthy brooding over aging and mortality.”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“He sniffed the whiskey and relaxed. It smelled like moss and mud and Leprechaun ass. Irish, then? We’re in like Flynn!”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“Oh, the money I put on my credit card to buy gift certificates to exchange for gift certificates from other people!”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM

“He smiled. I’m right. These monkeys are all fucked. In twenty years we’ll be nothing but a nuclear shit-stain on the underpants of the universe.”
― Ann Sterzinger, NVSQVAM