Rest Stop Quotes

“Trauma’s trauma, but I think some people are still just born assholes.”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“You want things so badly, but I think one of the things you want is to never have to fight for the other things you want, and that makes it impossible to, y'know, have those other things! It's not even a vicious circle, man. It's a stupid circle.”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“I have tried to make sense of this world. And a story sticks with me. A Buddhist teacher, with his students gathered around him—almost like a minyan, nu?—and he drinks out of a glass and says, ‘I love this glass. It is so beautiful. It carries the water to my lips and keeps me alive. It catches the light. But if, one day, I accidentally drop it and it shatters, my heart breaks with it. I am so sad. So I must remember: being broken is the glass’s truest nature. It will be broken far longer than it is whole. It is meant to be broken. It is already broken. How can I be sad then, for this brief illusion of wholeness?’ Do you see what I’m saying, Abraham?”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“We’re all in this mess together. Things like religion, like nationalities, are just trivia. We’re all just bugs against the windshield of time, right?”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“We’re all just biding our time before we break, aren’t we? This is just the rest stop.”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“What a shitshow. As if this year hasn’t been traumatic enough. Bowie dead. Prince dead. George Martin dead. Alan Rickman dead. Chyna dead. Abe fuckin’ Vigoda dead.”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“He's happy they're happy. He's happy happiness exists. Even if it's only for now.”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“presenting its insides in a wet bouquet across the glass.”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“Is this the feeling of being broken? He wonders. Or is it the process of breaking?”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“But what’s the point of surviving if he sacrifices his damned humanity to do it?”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop

“When he reaches the front door, he turns back around, as if to double
check what he just read.
The front license plate is the same.
CR8 H8
Create Hate.”
― Nat Cassidy, Rest Stop