Counting Descent Quotes

“it would be nice to be something in a museum one day because that’s what I’ve been told means you’ve lived a meaningful life but I think instead I might like to be in a garden where even after I die the residue of me can help grow something more beautiful than I ever was”
― Clint Smith, Counting Descent

“Tell me, at what velocity does joy travel?”
― Clint Smith, Counting Descent

“do you know what it means for your existence to be defined by someone else’s intentions?”
― Clint Smith, Counting Descent

“To deny the full humanity of others is to deny it within ourselves.”
― Clint Smith, Counting Descent

“We are charred vessels vestiges of wood & wonder anchors tethered to our bows. It is the irony of a ship burning at sea, surrounded by the very thing that could save us.”
― Clint Smith, Counting Descent

“poor ain’t poor unless you name it so & kids prefer playing to counting so there was never much time to wallow in anything but laughter.”
― Clint Smith, Counting Descent

“Something You Should Know is that as a kid, I once worked at a pet store. I cleaned the cages of small animals like turtles, hamsters, rabbits, and hermit crabs. I watched the hermit crab continue to grow, molt, shed its skin and scurry across the bottom of the aquarium to find a new shell. Which left me afraid for the small creature, to run around all exposed that way, to have to live its entire life requiring something else to feel safe. Perhaps that is when I became afraid of needing anything beyond myself. Perhaps that is why, even now, I can want so desperately to show you all of my skin, but am more afraid of meeting you, exposed, in open water.”
― Clint Smith, Counting Descent