Scanlines Quotes

“Generation Y, Millenials, whatever we were, we weren’t concerned about ancient doctrine or philosophy. Angels and devils were stories told to give us hope or scare us. All we wanted was to live, man, and enjoy our time while we could, come whatever may. Music was great, movies and games were great, and we couldn’t wait to graduate and leave our shitty little town. The horrors of 9/11 hadn’t happened yet, the economy hadn’t collapsed, and a gallon of gas cost less than a buck-ten. The millennium was coming up. The threat of Y2K was real and yet no one understood why. College was on the horizon, the gateway to our successful futures, and what an exciting time that promised to be. Who had time for ghosts and the words of dead men? Why worry about superstitious dangers? How many cracks have I stepped on without breaking Mom’s back? I’ve lost count of how many black cats have crossed my path. We—I—grew up in a time when none of that mattered because tomorrow was a million years away. Even now, as my peers are back home living with their parents, unable to afford what society promised them twenty years ago, we’re all still living day to day. Living in the moment. We have no time for superstition because, hey, I need to meet my hourly quota for the day, week, month so I can pay my bills and continue surviving.”
― Todd Keisling, Scanlines

“What better way to hurt the living than to make them lose everything they love and deny them death?”
― Todd Keisling, Scanlines

“There is a reality somewhere where we all succumb to complete internal annihilation, and nothing in this world scares me more.”
― Todd Keisling, Scanlines

“The video changed something in me. Made me start thinking about the universe in a different way. No matter what people tried telling you, this was in no way a safe world. Sometimes people collapsed. Sometimes they broke. If it could happen to them, it could happen to you—which was something I’d really grow to understand a couple years later as a teenager, sitting on the edge of a hotel window, trying to find the “courage” to jump. I never did, and I’m grateful for that, but I’m not ignorant: there is a reality somewhere where I did exactly that—jump. There is a reality somewhere where we all succumb to complete internal annihilation, and nothing in this world scares me more. That’s what the Budd Dwyer video implanted in my brain. Not an idea, but a realization.”
― Todd Keisling, Scanlines