The Future for Curious People Quotes

“Books can break a man open,
even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.”
― Gregory Sherl, Ab morgen ein Leben lang

“What if there is this time bomb to love. What if it's like you fall in love with so many people who just aren't for you, and with each one, your heart toughens up, and you have to find the one who is right for you before your heart is completely calcified in your chest.”
― Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

“I think our souls are always being hole-punched, like old train tickets. In the end, we're all perforated. If we were buckets, we wouldn't hold water.”
― Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

“I feel like I’m going to get in a fight one day about the validity of falling in love so fast. Not a heated one because why would I give a shit if some other person gets it or not? Right now, it’s no longer the big flooding rush like when I saw her naked shoulder. It’s just this honest, frank truth. I love Evelyn Shriner. Love doesn’t start with need. Love meets love and just fucking recognizes itself. I’m supposed to be scared to death. Modern man isn’t built for these kinds of things. But I feel good.”
― Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

“I tend books the way someone in an aviary tends birds.”
― Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

“Her love could stretch on unconditionally and endlessly, like
it’s a universe within her. I’m drawn to the edge of that universe. I’d like to fall into a black hole of it somehow. I just whisper, “God.”
― Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

“What happened in the bar doesn't matter anymore. None of that matters. It's already the past and the past is dead. It's a shed skin. The present is worthless. It's just a thin membrane between the death of the past and the endless offerings for living in the future. I pick the future.”
― Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

“As a kid, I went to the library because, in books, there were people really living lives, and unlike my parents, they talked to me about important things.”
― Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

“I’m alive. This might be the first time I’ve ever really been alive in my whole fucking miserable life. This moment is what causes wars to start. The only books worth reading have been written about those lips.”
― Gregory Sherl, The Future for Curious People

“You’re breaking up with me because I’m not a successful
guitarist, and because I seem like I’m just a guy handing out pamphlets on a street corner!
You’re disgusted.” This is why Adrian is disgusted with Adrian and has nothing to do with me.
Very little of our relationship has much to do with me, which is one of the actual reasons I’m
breaking up with him. He loves me but doesn’t really understand me – so, in effect, does he
really love me?”
― Gregory Sherl, Ab morgen ein Leben lang