Havoc Quotes

“apologizing for my presence, uglifying the room with my oldness.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“So it takes one agent of chaos to defuse another.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“We all need to escape our lives every so often. To recognize the cage we’ve found ourselves in, the bars around us that we’ve accepted as normal because they’ve risen up so slowly and imperceptibly over the years. That’s how life betrays you, day by day, when you aren’t paying attention.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“What do I do? I liberate people who don’t know they’re stuck. I help them to press the eject switch. That’s one definition. Another? I sow chaos. I clean house. I change people’s lives for the better, whether they see it that way or not. Only once did my actions end for the worse. But I don’t like to think about the murder.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“For fifty-four years we didn’t just finish each other’s sentences; we could start them.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“I’ve discovered that it isn’t so much the eyes of strangers you miss in old age as the pleasure in your own eyes at the sight of yourself.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“Believe it or not, I want people to be happy. Or if not happy, then free. I don’t meddle, that’s not how I think of it. No, I engineer a fork in the road, the miraculous moment when the prison door falls open, the rare and precious possibility of a second chance. You might not agree with my tactics. Judge me all you want, but I think it’s healthy to test others. Go or stay. Run free or remain trapped. I don’t decide. That’s for them to choose.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“Grief has no sense of theater; it nestles itself into the most ordinary corners of the day.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“Grief”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“we didn’t just finish each other’s sentences; we could start them.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“At my age, injuries appear out of nowhere, like dangerous men on the sides of highways, trying to convince you to stop for them.”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc

“all need to escape our lives every so often. To recognize the cage we’ve found ourselves in, the bars around us that we’ve accepted as normal because they’ve risen up so slowly and imperceptibly over the years. That’s how life betrays you, day by day, when you aren’t paying”
― Christopher Bollen, Havoc