Little Universes Quotes

“People that don’t wake up every morning feeling like what’s the point will never understand. It’s impossible. They say: exercise, meditate, think happy thoughts, snap out of it, wear this crystal, drink this tea, find your goddamn bliss. But I literally—and I am not exaggerating—do not remember a time when I was truly happy.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“Your whole life is a sim.
Practicing for disaster. For the worst-case scenario. For Houston, we have a problem.
Expecting the unexpected.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“Spend our lives. Minutes as currency. It’s like we’re paying God, handing Her our time in exchange for more breath: Here’s a minute, here’s another minute, another. And sometimes I want to be like, Can I have a refund? Or maybe an exchange. A new life. A new me. Because I’m only seventeen and I feel broke. Like I spent my life already.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“I can’t carry you. I love you, he said. But. I can’t carry you. Sometimes, he said, you’re too much. I can’t carry you.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“I guess some people need to get as close to death as possible before they realize they don’t want to die after all.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“Turns out, it's not hard to erase yourself.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“C'est la goddamn vie.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“I think I might fall off the wagon again. Preferably today. Preferably now. Are wagons really that hard to climb back onto? They don’t say fall off a skyscraper, fall out of a plane. It’s just a wagon.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“It doesn’t make me feel better. To hate him. How do you unlove someone?”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“But here’s the point: I’m fucking sad and I feel like a goddamn ghost, okay, and I’m sorry if that’s politically incorrect, I’m sorry if my invisibility comes with my own savings account and matcha lattes, but it’s mine, okay, it’s mine and it’s real to me, so just let me freaking have it. I know, I know that other people, so many other people, are invisible in ways that can get them killed or never have a good job or a seat at any table. I know this. But invisibility is a spectrum, like anything else. And I’m on it.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes

“I think I might fall off the wagon again.
Preferably today. Preferably now.
Are wagons really that hard to climb back onto? They don’t say fall off a skyscraper, fall out of a plane. It’s just a wagon.”
― Heather Demetrios, Little Universes