It Devours! Quotes

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!

“Sometimes it's okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“He was not so arrogant as to refer to his own death as The End, just one of billions of ends before The End. Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“That’s a simplification. Just because something eventually doesn’t work out doesn’t mean it never worked out. It was working out fine until, not much later, it wasn’t working out at all. Happiness is not canceled out by unhappiness. A relationship is not canceled out by its end.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Everyone in this town is frightening and friendly and kind and awful. But everyone everywhere is.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“A story never stands on its own, but exists in the context of the storyteller.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Saying a moment is awkward has never made an awkward moment better, but it’s a tactic that humans keep trying over and over.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“But a person doesn’t need experience or knowledge of something to have opinions about it. It turns out all they need for that are opinions.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“There are moments in life in which it is made clear to us how vastly we have misunderstood.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“It felt like illness, but it was only existence.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“It's a kind of assault, this constant insistence that we can't be publicly acknowledged. Sometimes an act as simple as a person recognizing you, your bulk, the tangibility of your skin. That can mean everything.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Aren't we all, metaphorically, just looking for a bathroom?”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“The sky once loved a certain rock. Bur millennia of erosion transformed the rock to dust. The sky, not understanding, still signals for its friend who abandoned it. The rock never knew about the sky. The rock only loved the wind that was slowly eroding it.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“As the saying goes, ‘Those who fail to understand history are doomed, as are those who do understand it.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Sometimes it's okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!

“He recognized them for what they were: humans, who were right about some things and wrong about other things and certain about everything.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“What use is the truth in a world where we die either way? Isn't it better to live happy until that last moment, believing the story you are living, shoulder to shoulder with others who believe and live that same story? Why flounder in the void when there is no need to do so? The story ends the same way, no matter how you chose to perceive it. Why not choose to perceive it as meaningful?”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Mountains, real or not, ring this desert like the rim of an empty dinner plate. Scattered sparsely along the flat middle are small towns with names like Red Mesa, Pine Cliff, and, right in the center, Night Vale. Above Night Vale are helicopters, protecting citizens from themselves and others. Above the helicopters are stars, which are completely meaningless. Above the stars is the void, which is completely meaningful.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Plus, it is basic human nature to treat polite people worse than rude people. It is easier to assert dominance over a person unlikely to fight back with much force. Rude people tend to fight hard, and it’s not worth stirring them up.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Inside her mind was the deep black of the night sky. No stars, no moons or planets, just an infinite darkness from well before Creation, from long after Entropy.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy?”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Skin is a necessary evil.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“lifetime of physical emotion that he hadn’t expressed, all coming out of him. It felt like illness, but it was only existence.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Jamillah was still holding the power drill. She liked to always carry it, just in case she found herself in a situation where it would be useful. And when you always carry a power drill, almost every situation seems like a situation in which a drill would be useful.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Nilanjana had considered only a tiny portion of true things in a world that is made almost entirely of them.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“D-Day is short for Dog Day, which happened during World War II, when we defeated the Germans by not letting them come over to pet our dogs anymore.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“You were ordered to ignore certain things and stop doing other things. It seems you have continued to do things and pay attention to stuff. That will not stand.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“How strange we are, how strange this is, but how nice, how good, but how strange.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!