Telephone Quotes

“I had never heard such bullshit in my life. I opened my mouth and said, "I have never heard such bullshit in my life.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“People, and by people I mean them, never look for truth, they look for satisfaction. There is nothing worse, certain painful and deadly diseases notwithstanding, than an unsatisfactory, piss-poor truth, whereas a satisfactory lie is all too easy to accept, even embrace, get cozy with.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“Of all possible worlds this was the one in which I had landed.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“Mexico,” I said. I couldn’t believe I was hearing my own voice. I felt I had either surprised myself or betrayed myself.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“had left Meg to deal and cope with the saddest of all possible situations, and I would have been hard pressed—no, simply unable—to tell her why. I did”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“She laughed and asked, "What if Shakespeare was just hitting keys?"

"Shakespeare didn't have a typewriter," I said.

"What if he was just making marks on paper? And that's how he came up with Macbeth?"

"I doubt it. Maybe Measure for Measure. I could see that with Measure for Measure. Not Macbeth.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“As I fell asleep, I knew I would dream, and I dreamed first that I knew why I dreamed, why humans dream. We dream, quite simply, so we know we're not dead.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“At the time of this writing, I do not know whether I will live much longer, and you don't know what I'm talking about.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“The sky was black, deep, infinite, the very thing that scared the Greeks and all the other ancients.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“It was the one place that I knew more about than anyone else. I wondered if everyone needed such a place, if everyone could have such a place, if my daughter would ever have such a place.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“Basil was happy to have me home. He considered the manner in which I ignored him a kind of attention. He and I were not so different.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“War is hell," she said. "Do you know why I always beat you, Daddy?"

"Tell me."

"Because you hate to lose pieces.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“I lay awake for the balance of the night letting my dream shatter into indecipherable pieces the way dreams do.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“Very tall with red hair and freckles. Clear marks of a hooligan.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“Perhaps nothing had happened. Perhaps everything had happened.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“In case you forgot, my name is Zach Wells. It would not be so strange or awfully bad if you had forgotten.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“It was so much like falling.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“Perhaps to protect me from the bright light of God. If there was a God, he or she was no good at its job. Apparently there was just too much to do, listening to the prayers of all those who actually mattered, the faithful, the pious, the deluded, the stupid.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“There might not have been the heaven that so many fools advertised, but there certainly was a hell, and it smelled like blood and cold cereal and the family dog.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone