Quicksand Quotes

“اگه نمی‌تونی خارق‌العاده باشی، مبهم باش. اگه ندونن به چی می‌خوای برسی، هیچ‌وقت متوجه نمی‌شن در رسیدن بهش شکست خوردی”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“It’s important to always take sides. Both sides,”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“Conservatism is like plaque; even once scraped away, it builds up again to problematic levels, so that what is now permissible can yet again become taboo -”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“There’s nothing I would do again the same, and if given the opportunity, I would decline the opportunity.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“The worst thing in the world isn’t suffering or loneliness at all. It’s a combination: suffering alone.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“We know what country this is: It’s the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“Down at the foamy shoreline, where small tight waves explode against black rocks, a lifeguard with feet wedged in the wet and vaguely tangerine sand stands shirtless like a magnificent sea-Jesus. An ill-timed journey into a breaker knocks a boy on his little back. A bald man throws a tennis ball for his Labrador and a second, unrelated dog bounds in after it. Through a gauze of mist a brunette—tall, and from where we’re sitting seemingly riddled with breasts—kicks water on the sunlit torso of her blond companion. There are three other drinkers in the place, already tethered to the sunbleached bar. It is eleven a.m. Slumped in his cumbersome mechanised wheelchair that squeaks somewhere down by the left back wheel when he’s doing pressure lifts, Aldo squints out from sand-whipped windows into the tumour of searing light. He turns to me and says, ‘I’m nobody’s muse.’ I think: That’s a great line right there. I take out my notebook and when he shoots me an outraged look I say, ‘That’s right, motherfucker. I’m writing it down.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“No time for self pity", she answered, as if feeling sorry for oneself was only a matter of scheduling”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“Your Honor, I have been horny and tired my whole life”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“I climbed out of bed and went out into the balcony so I could think of Mimi in peace without Mimi herself interrupting me”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“I know it’s hard for an atheist to accept, but even though He is nonexistent, God is irreplaceable,” Aldo says. “In lieu of accepting the stale knockoffs on offer, one must reinvent Him or remain forever unfit for active duty”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“I know it’s hard for an atheist to accept, but even though He is nonexistent, God is irreplaceable,” Also says. “In lieu of accepting the stale knockoffs on offer, one must reinvent Him or remain forever unfit for active duty”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“Each day you wake up alive, you are the victor; go claim your spoils.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“I watched myself metamorphose annually into the same thing I was the year before.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“Each day you wake up alive, you are the victor; go claim your spoils”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“The truth is, you can only be generous with your time up to a point, then you have to leave your friends on their icy rocks alone. You have other things to do.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“It’s an infallible rule that one achieves one’s dreams too late.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“you who don’t realize that being busy is incontrovertible evidence that you’ve taken life too seriously, and who wonder what’s the use of life if you don’t get to keep it when you die, you who want to travel to the sexual ends of the earth but don’t even know where your next embrace is coming from, you who feel overtaxed and late to the party, and for whom self-fulfilment is your goal thus dissatisfaction your destiny!”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“Let me ask you something. Have you noticed? That you’re not perceptible? You know. By all the senses at the same time? That some people they can’t smell you? And to others you emit no sound? None whatsoever?”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“How to make
someone need what they don’t need? How to reverse the polarity of dwindling
physical attraction?”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“I try to assure myself that "everyone's in debt nowadays" but the fact of it being an epidemic doesn't help one iota, any more than the knowledge of being swept up in a fatal plague would aid in any practical way the infected individual.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“Morrell turned his head upward as if to appraise the azure, featureless sky and nodded, apparently approving of God's use of negative space.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“I felt an attack of my most chronic illness - the pain of missing out.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“It’s rare to get so attached to another human being in adulthood.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand

“A life strategy of minimizing regrets only winds up guaranteeing you suffer the maximum.”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand