You Feel It Just Below the Ribs Quotes

“You live your life, and then at the end you have to look back on it. You can either accept it or you can’t, but either way, you die with it behind you.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“It is one of the universe's deepest and cruelest jokes that it takes a lifetime to learn the lessons you need in order to live.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“I grew up at the end of the world, and all that mattered was what was for dinner.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Everything is irrelevant. Everything is important.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“I was born into the apocalypse.
It's probably unhelpful to throw around a word like "apocalypse," and to be honest I couldn't tell you whether it's even apt.
It looks like an apocalypse from here. Or from now. From a distance, it looks like the world ended. Maybe it did.
But—and I suspect that this isn't something people like to admit; I've seen a lot of people who lived through that time not admitting this—it didn't feel like an apocalypse.
It just felt like life.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“It is hard to stop yourself from developing affection for people, even when all your past experiences have taught you how dangerous it is.”
― Janina Matthewson, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“We are all the descendants of societies we cannot understand.”
― Janina Matthewson, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“I got to have a little taste of a sweet, tender innocence that, when you look back at that time as a whole, seems entirely absent from the world.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Memory is malleable. History is mutable. All I can do is try to make sure my story isn’t lost.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Once you believe that the end of the world has begun, you are complicit in its destruction.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“I have known death all my life. I fear it, course. But it is familiar. Death is a stray dog I have taken in and fed, not because I love it but because I don't want it biting me out of hunger.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“We got married on a cold, gray, damp day, and everything was beautiful. I didn’t need sunbeams because I had her. I didn’t need blue skies or sweet summer breezes, because the depths of winter felt like spring.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“We told him everything we could remember. Everything we could imagine. And he drank it all in as if we were telling him the secrets of the universe.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“They rail against authority if only to assert their own existence.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“like the whole of the world—I needed a new beginning, a new way of thinking, a fresh approach to how to be human”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“It felt like nothing else mattered. The world was burning around us, but it couldn’t touch us.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Language is rich and vast, but with all its breadth, it’s insufficient.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs