All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge Quotes

“It takes a particular level of talent to be as profoundly bad at sports as I am.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“As the decades moved on, the South became saddled with its nearly singular identity: a racist third-world country living at the bottom half of the United States. Forgotten, of course, is that the South is the most diverse composition in the entire country. More Black, brown, and LGTBQ+ folks live in the South than anywhere else in America. Yet, we remain a punch line of Southern twang and hillbillies so that America never has to collectively address that the blood of enslaved people and the genocide of Natives fertilized every crop and dug every road from sea to shining sea. It just becomes easier never to address our collective and universal sin when you can point your fingers southward and say, “Look at those backwoods rednecks” while your knee is on the throat of a Black man in Minneapolis.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“We wanted to die but were too afraid we would survive it and be stuck with the medical bills.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“I sometimes wonder if humans are all given the same amount of energy when they are born. Kind of like lives in a video game. We are all doled out three lives and some of us just use that energy in different ways and collect different abilities or disadvantages as we go along. Then one day, just like that, you don’t have any energy anymore. It’s all used up. Some of us use it all up before we are twenty and some of us reserve just enough to say goodbye at a hundred. Different things like trauma or hurts can drain us. Who knows? Maybe we just only have so much.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Not being shot by the police, having access to education, employment, healthcare, childcare, abortion, the ability to protest, journalism, marrying who you wish, housing, these aren’t participation trophies. They are basic human rights.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“My grandmother died just before the 2016 presidential election. All my memories with her were the”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Some things just are, you know. It doesn’t all have to fit in a pretty little box or on a calendar. I mean I didn’t ask to be like this. I didn’t ask for this to be what happened. I didn’t mean to love you both. I didn’t want to be complicated, you know! I mean, fuck, why would I want to be complicated? I just know that I love you and I love her and I love us together. I don’t know how else to explain that.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“I should have told him that protesting was also very American. That expressing freedom of speech was American. That disagreeing with your government was truly American. That wanting people not to starve was American.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“It just becomes easier never to address our collective and universal sin when you can point your fingers southward and say, “Look at those backwoods rednecks” while your knee is on the throat of a Black man in Minneapolis.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“But life really comes down to the two major types of folks: those who do and those who say they will but never do.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Trump was still just a silly D-list celebrity firing people on television and seemed quite safely far away from being able to fire nuclear missiles.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“we would be bringing their grandkids into what felt like a third-world America.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“So we acquit Andrew Jackson as the worst president and absolve FDR of his concentration camps and forgive Bush for misplacing weapons of mass destruction and Saint Obama because we face a greater evil. Will we ever be able to condemn a president after this and what power are we giving those future presidents if we are just grateful never to be ruled by someone quite like Trump again? Is this justice? Maybe not, but I sure could settle for a little bit of not feeling like the entire Republic might crash around me in an apocalyptic evangelical self-fulfilling prophesy.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“My father liked to constantly remind me that he put himself through college, purchased his first house and a car for $500 with his weekend job. The way I figured it, by rate of inflation and hours worked, I should have been able to afford a mansion and a yacht by now. Somehow, the math wasn’t working out like that. Maybe I was under my desk the day they taught that in school.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“What Trump was too stupid to see, that any of us could have warned him, is that when you’ve got a generation of people who were raised being told the world belonged to them, you were just a means to an end. Millennials knew all too well that our parents used us as little remote controls and to fill the gas because they were too afraid to get their hands dirty. They didn’t just want Trump because he spoke like them and gave them permission to be their most vile selves in public; they wanted someone to do their dirty work for them.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“I thought that it was supposed to bring you happiness and fulfillment. But with each step up the stairway to heaven, Nick stopped loving, stopped smiling, and stopped laughing. I guess he had reached the final stage of process: he was the bishop. Now he had perfected these gifts inside himself he would be able to teach others to stop loving, stop smiling, and stop laughing.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Titanic had just been released that winter and we all went to see it a million times. Something about it captured our spirit of love and adventure like no other movie had. I don’t know what it was exactly, but we just couldn’t get enough. We were a bunch of teenagers walking around breaking our own hearts over and over again. It was perfect and beautiful.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Even after their falling out, Shane never stopped truly caring for Nick, even if he couldn’t stand looking at him for more than a few seconds. It was the kind of heartbreak that people assume is exclusive to romantic love. After watching their breakup, I’m not sure there is really much of a difference between lovers or friends going their separate ways. They shared every bit as much intimacy, if not more, as lovers minus the physical consummation.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“The weird thing about having your entire life destroyed before your very eyes is that it doesn’t feel very impressive or all that deconstructive in the moment. You don’t really know what is happening until you take a look back behind you and realize all the wreckage and are able to see clearly that you could have changed everything if you had just gone right instead of left.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“It seemed that just around the time that everything started to feel normal again, here came the AV nerds running down the hallways again. Senior year began with the towers falling. It was all too much. It felt like the world was falling apart and we were just collateral damage in some game grown-ups were playing. A war began and it seemed like half the guys from my graduating class joined the military. They drove around in trucks with “Infidel” written in white letters across their windows. We now had an enemy at home and an enemy abroad. If you were different, if you didn’t look like Leave it to Beaver, you were a suspect. The Muslim kids and the Black kids and the queer kids and the alternative kids; we were a walking perp line.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Watching as our friends went to go fight an invisible enemy called terrorism. Our friends dying outside of oil fields protecting special interests. None of it made sense. Just a few years ago, we were all suspects, potential school shooters, having to go through metal detectors to make sure we weren’t armed and then straight out of high school they handed all our friends guns and sent them halfway across the world to die in order to get gas prices back down below two dollars.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“They somehow figured out a way to make our parents cheer on our destruction instead of our success. We became the suspects, the terrorists living under their new roof, a marauding gang of anti-fascists ready to sell our souls for a couple of social media likes. Yes, Mom, we did it all for the lolz. What a laugh riot it has been to live under the highest inflation and lowest economy so we could pay into safety nets that would be consumed before we ever had a chance. We were all giving our lives in some way, over griddles with burger patties, in hallways of our schools to preserve the Second Amendment, or in deserts for you to fill up your SUV. Hell, there wasn’t a single one of us that didn’t know someone who had fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would return through that same revolving door. I sometimes wondered when they would replace the Vietnam vets on the street corners, panhandling on the Panhandle. “Never forget!” Oh, how we would forget their faces soon enough. They would be hidden under scruffy beards and ignored by the VA. Living in a military town, we knew all too well the song and dance. Just another cog in the machine of how our generation was being forgotten before it ever got a chance to begin.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“We were just a bunch of scared and overly zealous kids grasping for a future we had all been promised, only to find out when we got there it had been reverse mortgaged so our spawners could go on cruises and never retire, just for fun. We did everything we were told to do. “Go to college so you don’t flip burgers!” our parents would say in liturgical unison. And all the politicians said, “Amen!” with raging boners over the interest we would be paying until the day we died of a preventable ailment. In the beginning, we never even questioned why we disparaged the culinary artists who prepared our meals, nor did we anticipate that we would all soon be fighting on the same battlefield together begging for table scraps. Comrades in arms of a war we didn’t even start. We were casualties of a massive game of Craps our parents were playing with the economy, betting their odds against our planet, our gains, our jobs, our education, our healthcare, our future. We were bitter millennials long before they even told us we had a title.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“There was not a single bit of pretense or bullshit in any action that he took, except that promise that he would pay for the drinks.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Each morning waking up and wondering, “Is this the too far? Is this the moment everything changes?” and then ordering another crunch wrap supreme.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge