It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over Quotes

“I don't miss my name and I haven't bothered to replace it. I miss your name. I'm sorry but I have forgotten it, too. I don't look for it on the walls. The thought that I might read it and pass it by, just to go on to the next name is terrible. Like meeting you in another life and failing to recognize you.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I am in the ocean. I am on the shore. I am trying to remember or to see.

The space between me and me is you. This is a mystery.”
― Anne De Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“This sadness is not an empty church and not an empty house. It is the whole empty world and I am in it and it is in me.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“The earth holds things in its body. In clay. In ice. The real. The unreal. Time. Each other. All the chances we had.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I close my eyes and try to breathe but the end of the world is in my throat.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I realize now that when I was playing these silent movies of life after our life, you were still there. You were sitting with me, the two of us alone in the theater, still together. This sadness is not an empty church and not an empty house. It is the whole empty world and I am in it and it is in me.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I would have had so much in having you and would have lost so much in losing you that I would no longer want anything.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the loop. If I am hungry and I eat and I remain hungry, hunger becomes rage. But to deny fulfillment makes sense of the hunger – I don’t eat, so I am hungry.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I think, if I am in the place where we were together, then we are together again.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I pretended everything would be okay because it seemed impossible to always be saying goodbye.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“It’s gone. That one thing I knew about myself. That thing that made me me, alone in all the universe. I’ve lost it…This is what I want to tell you, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. Composed. Decomposed. We are unbound. We are hungry because we are endless. We are endless because it’s too late.
It’s all over. It’s all gone.” (Combined quote, pg.27)”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“We are just like the living. Hunger is only ravenous hope.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“They stand in each other’s arms, already naked and so alive. They glow in the dark like the white flowers, like allegorical statues in a midnight garden. Youth. Love. Stupidity. Lust.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“The stars are very thick. I understand finally that the sky is not above me, but that I am in the sky. This is related to the crow. And the crow is related to the baby. And the crow is related to you. Maybe the way the baby was related to you. Not through blood, but through me. Through a particular shared longing for increase.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I can hear you clearly but it is also as if you are far away. It is unbearable to look back from the future we did not know we had been traveling toward. That is not right. It is unbearable because we did know. It was plain as our own palms.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“The sun sets. I watch it go. It sinks very quickly and I’m not ready for it to be gone. Just before it goes, it slows. The last moment is long and sudden. The next moment is vast and loud. The sky and the waves.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“When the jay pushes off into air, it leaves on my skin the firm live impression of its departure.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“We came here from life. A bleak and aimless world of uncertainty and self-delusion, of violence cloaked in compassion, of greed masquerading as order. A world of ranks and classes and races. Life. A world consumed by fear. A terrible world whose only consolations were the fantasies of god and of science.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“most of us can’t remember who we are … were …are. We are character actors to ourselves—people we recognize but can’t name.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“We wanted more of each other and more life. We were adding on a baby to the house of our love. Like a sunroom, but made of wonder and fear and time and denial. It was the future. We pictured ourselves living there. All the imaginary firsts and the world going on as if it weren't already too late.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“It is unbearable to look back from the future we did not know we had been traveling towards. That is not right. It is unbearable because we did know. It was plain as our own palms.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“Fingía que todo iba a estar bien porque me parecía imposible vivir diciendo siempre adiós. A lo arándanos. Al océano. A los cuervos. A los pelicanos y los correlimos. A los cormoranes. A la luz del sol en la pared de la salita a las cuatro de la tarde. A tus ruidos en la habitación de al lado.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“When you have arrived at the thing itself, then all you can do is compare it to something else you don't understand. A rock. A crow. The only things that remain themselves are the ones you can never reach. The things that are too big or too far away or move too slowly to detect. Smooth. Feathered. Loved. Already lost. They will always be only what they really are, and you will never know what name to call out to them.

I am in the ocean. I am on the shore. I am trying to remember or to see.

The space between me and me is you. This is a mystery.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I pictured myself as two lines not touching, running indefinitely through a landscape, bumping up perfectly over rocks and tracing the outlines of trees, always equidistant from each other and from the surface of solid things. Myself running in a line beside myself.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“We walk until we’re walking out instead of walking in.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over