The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On Quotes

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of
catastrophe but not the catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can
dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong?
I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Q: What is the past tense of “lived”?

A: Once, I looked back and purchased vowel after vowel. I devoured the minutes which had already been dripping from my teeth. I smashed the fruit against the bowl and called it “salvage.” I retraced my steps, then retraced the retracing. What could I have done? I’ll say it every night before the day slips into rot: What could I have done?”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“On the phone, I ask my mother about a memory. Am I mourning that right, I want to know. “Just pretend it didn’t happen. I just say, it didn’t happen,” she says. It happened. Am I saying that right?

What happened?

Did it happened?”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“What's the German word for preemptively missing somethhing so much you can't look at it. Literal translation: green green green and I hide my face.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“you who wants comfort, who are you? have you been a comfort too? say it with me: it won’t be okay and we can follow the burning shore. there’s nothing more to say. no next time but the broken before.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Dystopia congratulations you were right to be paranoid”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Imagine, I can't stop saying. Imagine, I beg,
when I should have said, Look: paradise
is both a particle and a wave. You don't have
to believe in something for it to startle you awake.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“you who wants comfort, who are you?
have you been              a comfort          too?
say it with me: it won’t be okay
and we can follow the burning shore.
there’s nothing more to say. no next time
but the broken before.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“how to speak to any one in a history like this.
how to tell you.
everything will be all right.
without inheriting.
the family business.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“I know I should want to be torn open
by the failures of hope, but here's what I
want:

a tight circle around everyone I love;
a stove that doesn't burn.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories
stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Among a growing list of promises I can’t make my friends: This weight will tether. You can come back up again. The faithfulness of gravity, of morning sounds. If only you’ll stay.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Every day, a sky is".”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Every day, an extinction misfires, and I put it to work.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Mother, you taught me a word from *from* and never *toward.*”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Dystopia I liked the old dystopia better;”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Sixty-six million years after the last great extinction, six to eight business days before the next one, I whispered Speak to a fucking agent into the hold music to trigger the system into connecting”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Sixty-six million years after the last great extinction, six to eight business days before the next one,”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“I will have missed your is.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“I *will have missed your is*.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“I keep dreaming about showing up late to my own funeral,
everyone tapping their feet as I climb into the casket—”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On