The Same Breath Quotes

“Hearing about what happened to you, seeing what Dallin lives with, and knowing that nothing means anything, that we’re just trapped on this rock hurtling through a cosmic abyss, and all we do is make more suffering for each other—it’s hard. It’s so hard sometimes I can’t breathe.”
― Gregory Ashe, The Same Breath

“It was never the same thing twice, whatever it was. It touched you, and your skin tightened, and your breath sharpened, and something inside, something that might be the soul, caught fire and flared for an instant. And then it went out, and the world was back at arm’s length.”
― Gregory Ashe, The Same Breath

“Anyway, when you figure out none of that’s true—humans aren’t special, aren’t different from any other animal, and that you’re not special either and there’s nothing particularly good or unique about you, and that evil and suffering are much more a chain of consequences than a series of discrete, rational choices; when you realize eternity isn’t ever going to roll around, and all we have is here, now, and none of it means anything— that’s hard to swallow. Hard to stare into the darkness, waiting for the lights to go out”
― Gregory Ashe, The Same Breath

“I’ve got a responsibility as a human being not to allow you to walk around looking like a UPS employee.”
― Gregory Ashe, The Same Breath