Bad Thoughts Quotes

“An Anthropology is when you say sorry with a tiny, expensive candle”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“And what is a hand, anyway? Is it a hand, or is it a family of fingers?”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“He rubbed my arms vigorously as he did this. He told me he knew CPR and I thanked him for saving my life. This was role play, I think.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“When anyone brought up the Anthropocene it was only ever in reference to Grimes’s last album.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“Some days I pictured him getting hit by a car—not badly enough to die, but enough to transform him into a new person.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“available human inventory”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“Say hi to all the neighbors, he will plead. As a lifelong renter, I’ve trained myself not to engage. Once contact is made, you can never return to anonymity. You must always engage, losing hours of your life to pointless banter, like long-winded monologues about lawn maintenance, retaining walls and missing pets.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“So unsettling to find out what your favorite podcast host actually looks like. Do not look! You will never recover!”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“Then Jason appeared and handed me his birth certificate. I knew that if I ate it, he would no longer exist. There would be no record of him, and he would disappear from planet Earth.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“I plucked a ripe lemon off a branch and pressed it against my cheek, then rolled it around my face with my eyes closed, hoping to communicate with its energy. “What did you see?” I whispered.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“Standing complicated things; standing meant walking, and walking into what? Standing world felt different; in standing world, people died in unspeakable ways, often without warning. In standing world, men cried. They cried because they wanted to do bad things and there was nothing anyone could do about it.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“Nothing good happens between the cursed hours of 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. From now on, 3 p.m.–5 p.m. will be called “Long 2 p.m.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“After a while, I couldn’t remember what I was doing there. Everything had lost its meaning and all I could think was Don’t touch anyone’s penis—don’t do it.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts

“Maybe that’s it, the answer to everything. Let it be.”
― Nada Alic, Bad Thoughts