Alice Isn't Dead Quotes

“A life does not have to be satisfying or triumphant. A life does not have to mean anything or lead anywhere. A life does not need a direction or a goal. But sometimes a person is lucky enough to have a life with all that anyway.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“The only way to be brave is to first be afraid.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“Each death leads to smaller, invisible deaths inside the hearts of those left behind.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“If a point of view becomes one’s entire identity, what was monstrous on the inside can become monstrous on the outside.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain. But it does make the possibility for future happiness seem dimmer. Every good moment is shadowed by the question of that moment's longevity.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“She couldn’t go home. Because home wasn’t a place. Home was a person. And she hadn’t found that person yet.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“Why did the chicken cross the road? Because on one side was everything she had ever known and on the other side was a future, maybe, and even though she was afraid to leave everything she had ever known, she also wanted a future, maybe, and so hesitating, and then not, and then moving quickly, running, sprinting, even, desperate, she crossed, and found a future, maybe, leaving behind everything she had ever known.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“A life does not need to be satisfying or triumphant. A life does not need to mean anything or lead anywhere. A life does not need a direction or a goal. Ultimately, a life merely needs to be lived until there is no more living left to do.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“They knew, but didn’t like it, and so made a choice to not know. People are capable of that, of knowing but choosing at the same time not to know.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“A few bad apples, shit. Good apples and bad apples don’t matter if the outcome of the system is harmful. A good person doesn’t matter if they’re working in a bad system.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“I am glad I met you,' they said. 'I think I loved you. I don’t know if I can feel something as uncomplicated as love anymore. But I know that there are moments I’m still experiencing in which I love you. I don’t think you will see me again. But know that I am always seeing you, at every moment we had together, forever.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“All luck runs out eventually. Otherwise it wouldn’t be luck.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“It’s a long and desolate way from Florida to Atlanta. The landscape is constructed of billboards.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“Grey men in grey suits going greyly about the tedious business of running the world”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“Inside she would be a vessel of fluids and mourning.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“She noticed many of them look at him, but then their gazes slid off him. He wasn’t invisible. People saw him and then decided they didn’t want to.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“The stories of old women are the quiet, overlooked fabric of history.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“At what point of pretending to do a job do you end up just doing the job?”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“She didn’t want any remnant of her life before to taint whatever it was her life would become next.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“He was no different from lots of people. Of course, lots of people get murdered every year, but he thought he was different from those people,”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“It made Keisha feel like there was no center to it all, and that what had seemed to be the world was only a temporary arrangement of light.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“her parents knew. Except in some ways they didn’t know. They knew, but didn’t like it, and so made a choice to not know. People are capable of that, of knowing but choosing at the same time not to know. Eventually”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“He had never even been to San Francisco. But youth is the time for great leaps of faith, and so he packed everything he owned into his Corolla and started the drive from Connecticut because he believed that to experience America is to experience its distance.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

“She separated every item she found into two categories: unrelated and possible evidence. The possible evidence pile got bigger and bigger. Eventually everything went into it.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead