I Miss The World Quotes

“Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “9/11.” “I shouldn’t even.” “No, come on.” “9/11 who?” “You swore you’d never forget.”
― Violet LeVoit, I Miss The World

“Why are you holding onto that person? Thank them. Cut it off and let it go. Because you’re new now, clean, begun again. Your past was a beat-up, salt-scarred ‘90s minivan and you’ve been driving it for the last 40 years to get to this point. But you’re here and you don’t need it any more. So park it, and go on foot from here. I don’t know if that makes sense, but sitting on the cool dewy grass and sipping my milk and honey and listening to the gong, I believed it. I got what I wanted. I was free.”
― Violet LeVoit, I Miss The World

“I can remember the ‘80s, so what? Lots of people can. But I’m the only one who remembers the Kingdom of Grandma.”
― Violet LeVoit, I Miss The World

“Is there a name for the era between then and now? Or is everything after 9/11 just one big anxious mush?”
― Violet LeVoit, I Miss The World

“Southern stories need haunted eyes. That’s where all the bad mojo settles, at the bottom of the country. Like Coke syrup at the bottom of a Slurpee.”
― Violet LeVoit, I Miss The World

“But the Mormons are not afraid of us. They think deep down that they’re the real desert dwellers and us Angelenos are living in this artificially irrigated Eden because we’re soft and fragile jungle creatures, like some Amazon rain forest frog that landed its neon arrow-poison-secreting hide on some endangered species list because the humidity isn’t quite right this year. And so you bring them in and feed them—the Mormons, not the poison frogs—and you’ve always got to buy Danishes for the meeting. Where the hell do you find Danishes anymore? Their palates are atavistic, right back to the 1950s.” “You”
― Violet LeVoit, I Miss The World