The Bedding of Boys Quotes

“It reeked of customer service. Customer service was like underwear insomuch that it’s useful for holding up appearances in public—that is, unless you can see it, then everyone involved becomes uncomfortable, and no one wants that.”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“What better way to remove a burden than to pawn it off on some unknowing soul?”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“Midnight thoughts and three-am dreams, these are the gifts given to us by the horrors we have lived through. Because, although we’ve survived, our memories remain in the moment, so that we never truly escape. Ask any rape survivor what their nights are like, when the sun is down and the room is dark and their thoughts are the only company they keep. This is the burden of the living, and why the dead are the lucky ones.”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“Funny how things work out that way, how we inadvertently become that which we will ourselves not to be simply by wishing not to be that particular thing. Isn’t that adulthood? Doing that which you do not enjoy so that you might have the time and means to do the things you do enjoy? So many people working to live and living to work and forgetting to simply live. Childhood was existing for the moment, without care or worry, and the ever-present possibility of magic. Can’t forget the magic.”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“He wanted to run. He wanted to play.”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“Aw, man, mos def.”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys