The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves Quotes

“I found, weirdly, that even with all the stuff that had taken place, even with all the drama and sadness and anger, I could sometimes feel real love for things I’d always thought I’d hate forever.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“I think we all know—somewhere deep inside, somewhere we don’t want to explore, somewhere maybe close to the subconscious—that the chances of us living the life we want, the life we’ve envisioned, are very slim. We have to make do. And the digital age has plastered that ‘making do’ for everyone to see while simultaneously mandating that we be more. Achievements become ‘likes.’ Thoughts become ‘shares.’ Emotions become comments at the bottom of a video. It’s a digital tapestry of unanswered prayers, and if you look really close at it all, you see this enormous wall of human misery.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“But I suppose death does weird things to your memory, makes you think of the person in a way that’s better than the person actually was.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“She was so temperamental, that one, but I’ve learned you’ve just gotta let people have their emotions, screwed-up or not, and then wait for things to get back to normal. There’s no use sitting on things forever.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“Cause people in general are all full of garbage, and if you can’t accept other people’s garbage, you’ll just never be with anybody. I dunno. This conversation is kinda deep right now, especially after watching a movie like that.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“Rickyg9999: no, I love the state for real cuz its my home but just the people here in El Monte Springs are so stupid Jeremyinsf: there are stupid people everywhere. lot of stupid people here too. Rickyg9999: I guess your right but probably less Jeremyinsf: people are stupid in different ways no matter where you are.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“while, because even though we’d literally connected really well right away, I wasn’t sure about now. Kinda like relationships, maybe? Like you think right away that you’re meant for each other, and then time happens and you realize certain things, and it just goes downhill.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“And you could only really feel bad for someone for so long before they just got tiresome.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“What pushed me back to technology wasn’t the communication or logistical inefficiencies, though they certainly added to the speed of my reunion, but rather the malignant sense of missing out on the world. Without social media, I’d become erased and uninvited, defriended and devalued, ostracized from an insistently mobile society; I was the guy everyone avoided, for fear he discover that he hadn’t been asked to the party, and this constant disconnection felt like an unreachable itch in the middle of my back.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“Ricky and I didn’t really get along much, mostly because I was so much older than him. He was just this kid, this nuisance—eight years younger, so basically an alien.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“it wasn’t fair that people judged her on Ricky’s actions, because she had nothing to do with them.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

“He’d decided, abruptly, that electronic interaction was toxic, that it downgraded the significance of real human connection, that it resulted in what he called a “digital tapestry of unanswered prayers.”
― James Han Mattson, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves