Sightseeing Quotes

“I held my breath because it seemed the only sound left in the world and all around me then was an extraordinary silence. It made me feel light, that silence, as if I might float to the ceiling, as if I might be able to open my arms, flap them, and fly with the sparrows. I don’t know how long I sat there holding my breath in the dark, but I thought then of how loud the world could be, so much clatter and noise, and of how lovely and rare was a moment like this when one need not listen to anything at all.”
― Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing

“All human activity suddenly seemed to me composed of such sport: We each chose the game we thought would yield the most for us and our own. We gambled, gambled selfishly, gambled more than we could afford, the odds staggeringly stacked in somebody else’s favor.”
― Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing

“You’d think God invented stupidity the same day he came up with the penis.”
― Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing

“The earth is a tightrope; our train speeds across the flat thin wire. They say that a century from now this will all be gone, that the oceans will rise above this threadbare patch of earth, creating a strait as narrow as Molucca, as fine as Gibraltar, yoking the oceans, severing this nation into two. I can't quite believe this because I never believe anything I won't be around to see.”
― Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing