The Great Perhaps Quotes

“When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.”
― Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps

“Attention, God the Judge, God the Father, who Art in Heaven, give me one miracle, please. If You exist as I know You do, even if no one else in the world believes in You, please give me a brain tumor. Please tear my limbs from their sockets and let the backseat and my older sister be totally covered with blood. Please make me dumb and blind and deaf, please make me a martyr, please, dear heavenly Father. Tear my heart right from my chest. Drive spikes into my eyes and let hot lava shoot out of my mouth. Make me silent and thoroughly dead, but please hurry. Before we get home, before we reach the next stoplight, let the only sound be no sound, the silence of my death burning in the empty sky. If You are a mighty and true God, if You are not just a dream I have made up, please, before another hour, another minute passes, let the wire in my bra poke through my heart. Dear Lord, please, please, give me this one miracle. I have begged You every day, every evening, so please, let Your will be done, let Your will be done. Give me a gruesome death as fast as You possibly can. Thank you, God. Amen.”
― Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps

“Madeline decides Jonathan is an immature, selfish asshole and that she is never talking to him again.”
― Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps

“Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.”
― Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps

“C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she’s probably going to end up loving him forever.”
― Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps

“For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about anything in her life.”
― Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps