Valencia Quotes

“Why was the world so ugly and unknowable?”
― James Nulick, Valencia

“One boy smiled at me longer than I thought he should. I knew where he was headed. A life of misery.”
― James Nulick, Valencia

“He was a teacher of sorts. He was also a thief. He stole many things from me. He told me the stars in the sky had burned out long ago, that what we were seeing was only the past. The past was traveling so slowly it was already dead by the time it reached us. Like receiving a phone call from a dead relative, he said. When the next star is born you will be dead, he said. I will be, too. I did not understand.”
― James Nulick, Valencia

“Things come and go, people forget. Time passes over us like a cleansing wave. The beauty of time, if there is such a thing, is that it erases everything. Only when we are erased do we become fully complete. Annihilation is completion. Nothing that was ever alive truly dies. It changes shape, becomes something else. Traces of us remain in the fragments. This is called memory.”
― James Nulick, Valencia