Where Futures End Quotes

“On clear nights, when the stars were white on black instead of smoggy gray, we’d lie on the roof together and say cheesy things like, ‘At least they can’t charge us for moonlight.’ Although later they did, by way of imposing a curfew and fining those of us who broke it.”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

“He felt Quinn shift in the dirt next to him. “You’re wrong, you know,” she said. “People don’t change you. They can’t, because you’re never just one thing to begin with.”

“They do. They do terrible things and you go to pieces. You can't be put together again.”

She brushed a hand over his forehead, light as a falling leaf. “That’s what people are. Just all different pieces.”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

“I kicked off my shoes and moved in knee-deep. The shock of cold water stole my breath. Cole was dark from the sun, his yellow hair like parched grass. He cocked his head to the side like my grandpop used to do; I swear it’s a gesture taught to all farm boys who plan on growing up to make trouble. I fought to stand my ground against the current pushing at the backs of my legs.

“Can’t you swim?” Cole had asked.

“I learned in this creek. They threw me in and I declined the opportunity to drown.”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

“Maybe life will narrow down to a single moment.

Time will go to pieces.

...reaching now, lifting away with time and heat and air.

Like water into sunlight.”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

“On the first day, you will tell your story. On the second, I will tell mine. On the third, one of us will die. You will choose who.”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

“I’ve tasted sorrow, salt, and sickly sweets,” he sang. “Hate it all, but a boy’s gotta eat.”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

“You’ve become enamored with us,” he said. “But what you know of us is only what you’ve invented. Only an illusion.”

I leaned against him, and this time I knew my own vorpal was there too, right alongside his. “The illusion is the part we like best.”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

“I may not be your kind of rabbit anymore, a tame, huddled kind of rabbit. You might not like me as I am, a wild one who knows the smell of leaf litter and the give of pine needle carpets. You cannot understand a rabbit that will not shy from cold, open, loud. Who will not be touched by human hands. No, I am not your garden-cage rabbit anymore. Is it enough to know me from a distance, since that is the only way we can meet? Or will you leave me now and never return?”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

“He felt Quinn shift in the dirt next to him. “You’re wrong, you know,” she said. “People don’t change you. They can’t, because you’re never one thing to begin with.”

“They do. They do terrible things and you go to pieces. You can be put together again.”

She brushed a hand over this forehead, light as a falling leaf. “That’s what people are. Just all different pieces”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End