The Future Was Color Quotes

“Nobody knew it then, but somewhere in New Mexico the universe was being monkeyed with and what came out of it would irreparably humiliate the human desire for meaning, for purpose.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color

“It’d been years since George had accommodated a man and Jack was a lot to accommodate but he took it slowly and was deeply proud of what he accomplished.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color

“The way two men could park a car and extract such intense pleasure from each other’s bodies against nature—that was real. He felt hopeless—and that, too, it must be said, all real.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color

“The future was always there; you couldn't get away from a thing like that. Nobody could. But it was a way of seeing it that terrified him, a glimpse he only got when he wasn't expecting it, like turning a corner on the right street and having the city line itself up perfectly, all the way to the river. It wasn't like the river went anywhere, George told me. It never got up and walked off or dried up when you weren't looking. It was just that most days you didn't worry about it. But then you'd see it, and you'd worry; and this future, too, was something that tempted you, that asked you to cast yourself into it and drown. And then you'd turn, George said, and when you looked back it'd be gone. You'd have escaped once more.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color

“It must be so sad to die, to feel yourself miss out on everything that will come after, even if there are still bombs and diseases and disasters, even if people do get murdered and beaten, if they die in unspeakable pain, if it is still a fact that some live with their damaged bodies, or simply their aged bodies, bodies that were once beautiful and now are not.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color

“So much can fit into one human heart. Each of us can be, if we get lost, a little ark of vast demons ferried from life to life.”
― Patrick Nathan, The Future Was Color