Fatal Flaw Quotes

“no smell of piss or green beans. That was how you could tell for sure it was an upscale old-age joint. It smelled instead like a summer meadow, it smelled of daisies, it smelled like a preview of coming attractions.”
― William Lashner, Fatal Flaw

“The campus was Disney-fascist, a relentlessly upbeat place to wither and die.”
― William Lashner, Fatal Flaw

“You don’t believe in love?” “I suppose I do, like I believe in television, or the interstate highway system, but neither of them is going to save me, and I don’t expect love to either.” “You’re just being a hard-ass.” “You abdicated your life to love because that meant you didn’t have to take responsibility for your own failures. You thought this thing you craved would swoop down and save you.” “It wasn’t a thing.” “There’s no difference. A big TV. An SUV. Someone new to love. It’s still something outside yourself, so it will never be enough.”
― William Lashner, Fatal Flaw

“Nostalgia is a fire fueled by failures of memory.”
― William Lashner, Fatal Flaw

“I was ready to lose everything for a hope I now knew was false. I now knew it was false, impossible, ruined already by my own hand, and still I had no choice”
― William Lashner, Fatal Flaw