Even Skyscrapers Must End Quotes

“She told him once, I think they were drunk, that he could never keep a garden until he learned how to love pretty things without destroying them.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“She was so pretty, not the kind of pretty that hits you at first, but the kind that blooms the longer you were with her. Like a flower, she was always like a flower to me.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“The city was alive to a nonsensical degree. Every color was so absurdly saturated that I thought it was all kind of like a dream, more a painting or an art deco interpretation of a city than an actual city.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“I gave in to a deep and healthy laughter that must have added ten years to my life and given birth to a thousand blue butterflies somewhere in the world.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Some people like the dreaming better than the coming true part. They hate when things work out, they almost expect them to go wrong, and they never know what to do when their cynicism is proven wrong.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Humans feel pain, they feel it hard and heavy and deep, and that right there is the only proof of life you will ever need.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“My mother always said that plain can be pretty too.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“I knew never to trust a sweet promise.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Why does everything move so fast when you are angry?”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Music is the only place where time does not exist.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Her laugh was my favorite sound, and I think I was her favorite reason to laugh.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Boys get real scared when girls say everything at once.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“And I think the city fell madly in love with her just then.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“I'm no princess.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Dammit, life is strange.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“The idea of watching her walk away, taking every happy thing with her, was suddenly the very worst thing I could imagine.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“She was the kind of person they write songs about, the kind of girl who saves a man.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Damn, if I could go back, I would say a lot of things. And I would laugh more.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“And I stood there for a while in my sighing senselessness, waiting for her to make like a gorgeous flower and kiss me or something.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“I don't think you can really judge a person until you've seen them out of context. Out of their element, you know? When they're scared and free, that's when who they really are comes out. That's when you really see them, know them.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“So, no matter how happy I was, in the back of my cynical mind I kept waiting for the punchline, the catch, the wicked trick of it all. I was used to the things I loved disappointing me.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Contrary to popular belief held by the younger generations, you do not actually have to share everything you do with everyone you know. In my experience, the best moments in life are the ones nobody else will ever see, and there is a such thing as good secrets.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Music isn't perfect, see, that's what makes it so beautiful. You don't know it, you feel it. And you gotta really put your whole broken heart into it, or else it's just noise.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“People play games, the whole damned thing's a game. And friends are just a part of it. They lie, they pretend to know you, to get you. They even pretend to love you, sometimes. But they leave, they always do, in the end. You can try all you want. But I promise you, if there's one thing I know for sure about people, it's that they leave.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“I felt like summer sunsets or July fireworks or chasing down the ice cream truck.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream

“Men came to cities like this to get good and lost for a long time, maybe even forever.
Well, I never remembered coming here, but I was lost, that was for damned sure.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream