The Summer I Died Quotes

“Life really is amazing, and when you're about to lose it, you finally notice that you never really took it in before. And you realize the sheer magnitude of what it involves, from your first kiss to your hundredth slice of pizza. I guess that's why those tears drifted down my cheeks.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“Hope is a cruel bitch.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“it’s funny how you find God in such moments, almost instinctively, like a caterpillar on a strand of silk stretching for the first branch it sees, even if the tree is dead. Yeah, it may seem pointless, but at least it’s something. I even swore that if I survived I would go to church.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“On the ground, the now handless woman with the ax in her skull lay staring into oblivion. I envied her.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“I didn't want to let on how much firing the gun had effected me, but it had certainly turned my nuts into giant epcot centers of steel. the sense of power was unfathomable; suddenly I was the mightiest thing in existence, all men bowing before me. with the squeeze of a finger I could undo all goods creations.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“Shit. In my book, listening to a drunk get philosophical is on par with rolling down a hill in a barrel full of nails. You get dizzy, your insides shriek with stabbing pain, and you end up someplace lower than where you started.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“Life really is amazing, and when you’re about to lose it, you finally notice that you never really took it in before. And you realize the sheer magnitude of what it involves, from your first kiss to your hundredth slice of pizza. I guess that’s why those tears drifted down my cheeks.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“If I’d only known what was going to happen next I would have taken the gun from Tooth and put bullets in both our brains.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“Well wrap my nuts around a pole and call me mary, looks like you just popped your cherry!”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died

“You don’t just concede defeat in these circumstances. You take every second you can find and use it to pray for another few seconds. Hope is a cruel bitch.”
― Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died