Life for Life Quotes

“Our world is not safe. It is a toxic swamp populated by predators and parasites. The odds are stacked against us from the moment of conception. We survive only because we fight the elements, hunger, disease, each other. And, although civilization promises us safe harbor, that promise is a fairy tale. Only the storm is real. It comes for each of us. And we cannot win. We can only choose how we will suffer our defeat.

We can meekly take our beatings, and die like lemmings, finding solace in the belief that we shall one day inherit the earth.

Or, we can plunge into the chaos with eyes wide open, taking comfort instead from the bruises, scars, and broken bones which prove that we fought to live and die as gods.”
― J.K. Franko, Life for Life

“I’m not a bad man, Roy. I suspect you’re not, either. I think we just met under the wrong circumstances,” Harlan said. “I’m sure you can understand. When you have a child, you’ll do anything for them. Even if maybe it’s not... not the most advisable course of action.”
― JK Franko, Life for Life

“Susie took mental inventory of her sensations. She could hear and smell. The air she breathed was cool and dry. She could feel her chest rise and fall. Feel the air in her lungs. She sensed that she was lying on her back, but her eyes wouldn’t open. Her hands, her feet... nothing responded. She couldn’t move. She tried again to speak, but nothing happened. She was trapped in the darkness.”
― JK Franko, Life for Life

“Big kiss, girl. Be good. And sorry for all the headaches.
I hope I went in my sleep. I always thought that’s how I would want to go. Not that I deserve to. But it would be nice, you know?
Love always,”
― JK Franko, Life for Life

“So, how’s it lookin’, Detective? Today your lucky day?” “Oh, yeah.” Eddie nodded as he re-read the letter. “Christmas, my birthday, and Valentine’s day combined.”
― JK Franko, Life for Life

“Did you know that, in Florida, you get a choice? Death penalty-wise, I mean. Lethal injection or electrocution? It’s up to you. Have you given it any thought?”
― JK Franko, Life for Life

“There is a glorious, pre-orgasmic tension to seeing dominos lined up before they fall, like a spring wound up tight and ready to be released. Then the gentlest touch, like the finger of God in Michelangelo’s Creation, brings their potential connectedness into reality. The sharp clack clack clack clack as they fall announces that something amazing is happening; colors appear as different trails spring away from common starting points, then converge, only to twist and turn off again in new, different directions.
That change in progress is a thing of beauty. But, it is a beautiful lie. What happens is not transformation, but corruption, because the dominos must fall as they’ve been arranged. Nothing new is created. The initial, precise pattern simply collapses, and becomes a messier shadow of its former self.”
― JK Franko, Life for Life