Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World Quotes

“I just want to know how tomorrow is going to be any different if we still can’t agree on what happened yesterday over three hundred years later. You know?

Good night! Sleep tight! Beware the secret police! I love you with all my heart!”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

“Christ's disciples hate the poor and love the banks, who now have voting rights, and genders. All of the banks are men now. You're welcome.”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

“In a few weeks almost everyone’s gonna forget about the Beirut bombing, like we forgot about the ever-incoming nuke, like we forgot about the President campaigning on student loan forgiveness, like we forgot about the actor who said not enough Jews died in the Holocaust and that he hoped his wife got gang raped, like how each new President makes the other Presidents look kinder and gentler, like we forget about war crimes, like we forget about the secret police, like we forget about the homeless when we can’t see them, like we forget what it’s like to be poor to be hungry the minute we have food we have money, like we forgot about Three Mile Island, like we forgot that fall and spring used to be as long as winter and summer like we forgot we could do something about this, like we forget about anything we don’t turn into a holiday and remember only the signs and symbols of the horror, like we forget each time we remember that it’s not that we forget, it’s that there are just too many tragedies, every week, forever and ever, and to remember them all would kill you. Your heart would break and stop beating and you'd die. So we forget.”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

“Every day in the morning before going to work Sam, who leaves first because his commute is longer, has to do a lay uponst, which is when Eleanor is in bed and Sam has to lay completely on top of her." (229)”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

“Both Johnny and Jane went home alone because nobody knew they'd broken up. One day they just woke up and felt like strangers living inside a life they've built together, and it was scary. It was scary to look into the eyes of the person whose health insurance you were on every morning and have her look at you like a stranger. It was fucking scary to come home every day to the man who built your table your bed your couch your life, who'd scaffolded up your sense of self for five years, and have him tell you when you come home from the job that pays for his motorcycle insurance and gas, that he hadn't even the inkling of a notion of how to start to talk to you now." (47)”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

“The light of Heaven is within you. You sad sad fuck." (32)”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

“All around them are people, sitting, standing, drinking, someone is getting empanadas, then everyone is getting empanadas. The snow is falling all around. Do you know what I'm talking about? It's the end of the world. Not now, I mean, picture this: It's the end of the world. How much of your life are you happy with?" (25)”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

“He puts everything he has into dinner, every spare thought, as though it's the one thing he can do right for Eleanor, and it breaks her heart. It's incredibly hard to feel worthless. It's just a hard thing to do. And it's really fucking hard to be that person's fucking partner!”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

“I can't make you any promises other than that I love you. I don't know that this world will allow me to keep a single one. But I love you. I love you so much.”
― Sasha Fletcher, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World