Fishbowl Quotes

“There's such a fragile, thin veneer of illusion between the words "together" and "alone".”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“When the reason for a thing's being illuminated, it doesn't hold the same mystery it does when it is unknown, which is both a wonderful and a horrible revelation. It's wonderful because it's like peeking into the universe and understanding a tiny bit of its complexity. It's also horrible because a little bit of magic is removed from the world with each discovery.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“The person he is at the core is not being ridiculed; it’s the person they perceive him to be.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“If you live half as long, is the time you spend twice as important?”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“The building stands, shackled at its heel to its shadow in the fading light, the only witness to the fact that no single person lives their own life; we all live each other’s together.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“Is that any less a lonely place to be than having eyes pass you by entirely? Still nobody really knows you, not like you know yourself.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“Time stretches put above and below him. A column he can easily move through and get off at any time. Flights of run and risers twisting back on themselves, time becomes a serrated corkscrew edge heading up into future and down into the past. The elevator jumps between the two, slipping the column from the beginning to the end, stopping on demand or randomly at any floor in between. Time is a dog’s years versus tortoise’s years. Time is always happening, all at once.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“It could only happen once in a relationship, that exhilarating instant of reward or rejection, a gamble that grew less thrilling as the heart grew complacent with experience.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl

“Every time he says or does something weird, it's that specific thing they react to, not to Herman himself. Herman's self-aware enough to know that the hairbreadth distinction between the two is a coping mechanism.”
― Bradley Somer, Fishbowl