Hunger & Hallelujahs Quotes

“We’re all just waiting for our moment to redeem ourselves.”
― Philip Elliott, Hunger & Hallelujahs

“And I left him there, this saver of lives. I left him on his knees peering into the eyes of a stranger he’d rescued from oblivion.”
― Philip Elliott, Hunger & Hallelujahs

“At the clinic, they fed us pills like they were biscuits. Those pills made the tongue loose in my head, my left arm numb from the elbow down. Sometimes the world would smoulder at the edges. Patients came and went, people from every kind of background but all with one thing in common: no longer capable of contributing to society, they needed to be kept out of sight: losers, loners, dreamers, freaks; God forbid they ever make it onto a TV screen.”
― Philip Elliott, Hunger & Hallelujahs

“I rubbed my eyes. They felt like they were coming loose. Soon they'd slip out of their sockets and I'd be left to wander blind and staggering this land of longing and ache. The
things I would have done for a hit. If that asshole who'd kicked me out onto the side of the road had offered me some dope I would have sucked anything he wanted, would have pleaded on my knees topless, would have let him plunge a hand through my ribs and tear out my heart, anything.”
― Philip Elliott, Hunger & Hallelujahs