The Blizzard Party Quotes

“If I so choose, I may live unseen. But that’s not what twists my lemon. I want to be seen, to be observed, but without the knowledge that I am being observed. Like the lady said, I want to be alone. By which I’m pretty sure she meant, Think of Me Always.”
― Jack Livings, The Blizzard Party

“They had knowledge about me I didn’t have about myself.”
― Jack Livings, The Blizzard Party

“My mother had always thought of parties as events designed to foster collective amnesia, so that what you wanted in the end was a memorable place for forgetting.”
― Jack Livings, The Blizzard Party

“Even Jefferson, declaring those truths he claimed to be self-evident, was speaking to a point of personal contention, giving voice to an argument within himself, an argument with his God.”
― Jack Livings, The Blizzard Party

“What is it about us, she wondered, that compels us to speak the most on subjects about which we know the least? Is it because language is how we exercise our misunderstanding? Once we understand something, we don’t talk about it anymore – we set it in action.”
― Jack Livings, The Blizzard Party

“Bo believed that there came a time for every party, at which its alleged purpose fell away like a trap door, to reveal its actual purpose, which was to facilitate sex. Whether you just wanted someone to tell you you’re pretty, or whether you wanted to fuck the living daylights out of someone half your age against the sink in the laundry room, a party’s soul was made of those who stuck around for the pheromones. Sometimes everyone left when the trap door fell open. Sometimes everyone dove right in.”
― Jack Livings, The Blizzard Party