Insomniacs, We Quotes

“And yes, life is
mostly boring, and
we each go through it
feeling ugly or like
a failure, but sometimes
the sun cuts through
a tree line just right, or
you get to hold
someone's hand for
the first time.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“There's a lot of humiliation in
living, but that's okay, for if
the gods are always laughing,
then surely at times they must
be laughing with us.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“I once found a phoenix
charred in its own ashes. I
brought it home with
me, wept through the night,
and then tossed it to
the wind--its brittle body
dispersing all about.

This thing without
a name and deep within
me--how it truly believes
that if something is meant
to take flight, then it
must one way or another.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“Alarm clocks unset, their taunts
silent. Crystals flashing dire red,
as if to warn of seconds that
dwell, of years that fleet.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“The kind of love I seek is a folie a deux.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“What I want is for you to touch me in ways that hands and teeth and skin cannot.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“Old movies already in
progress, already passed over
twice, watched with indifference
until orchestras swell over
happy endings, new beginnings.

The images black and white,
the lie white. (Ours is a world of
heroes and of winners, and rarely
are they one in the same.)”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“I've never been a good representation of me.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“How we devour one another's culture, do so without shame--ideas like water, free flowing and able to take on other forms. Able to flood highways, level entire cities if summoned with enough force.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“There are worse things than
dying alone or afraid, such as
dying unafraid, or dying twice,
or dying to live.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“Let us shed digital skin, make
Mecca of faces. Let us be mirrors
facing mirrors, the spaces we
contain made infinite by
one another's unbroken gaze.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“Nostalgia an excuse not to live, kills us all in the end.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“We aren't always kind to one another, but want to be, and I believe that is the same thing.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“Women born works of art, men doomed to spend entire lifetimes trying to create just one.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We