Ministry of Moral Panic Quotes

“The deaths—tiny ones, false ones, real ones—we undertake in the name of love are the closest that we ever come to greatness.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“There are things that cut through swathes of memory, there are things you take with you that are non-essential, that drag you down, but you can't offload them because there is only one way to throw them overboard and that is for you to walk the plank.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“Alice, you must be the fulcrum of your own universe, and I feel the shame in my chest, that I can only pivot around people.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“Small people need to talk more loudly to be heard.
Well I'm small aren't I, I'm not even 1.6 metres tall, but you don't see me raising my voice.
Maybe you're okay with not being heard.
I just want to be heard by the right people. The right person.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“Life is difficult because in order to progress we have to come to terms with the things we do not have.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“There is no such thing in the world, as I cannot live without you; you cannot live without me. The earth spins. Time passes. Rice is eaten. What is there to disprove?”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“The truth was probably that my mother had been so defined by the existence of my father that when he died, she couldn’t see anything else before her. He’d closed his fist around her, she’d let him, and then when he died there was so much white space of possibility around her, she couldn’t breathe.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“A relationship means exhaustion. Entrapment. I haven’t the energy for the eventuality of it. Love is no big truth.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“October, the urban anthropologist will say, tapping his foot steadily, we are sociologists, not politicians. We are academics, not charity workers. Life is a phenomenon.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“It's delicious. But why is Malay chili sweet?
It helps the musicians write better love songs.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“Eternity is not the crux; the only necessary knowledge is that we once possessed each other.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“Pride is not difficult to swallow when you weigh the odds. I've always been level-headed.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“Know what you need to sing well?
What?
Dead knots in your heart.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“I like the thought. Now tell me, have you ever pantomimed a picnic across a swimming pool floor?”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“If I, xxx, do unto xxx any manner of betrayal, may the heavens punish me via lighting striking me down dead.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“How is it possible that we were fated only to meet, but not destined to be together?”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“There was a Chinese girl I was gila in love with, Deddy Haikel says to the young nurse, as she listens to his heartbeat, assessing the damage of this second heart attack. I would have done anything to get into her pants, and it wasn't even about that.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“You're being cheap.
Naw, I'm being anti-consumerist.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

“But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time.
The wife got up and slapped her smartly across the face. Love? The wife gave a bark of laughter. What do you think you know about love?”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic