Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes Quotes

“I can still so distinctly recall the moment when I came to terms with that fact—when I knew unequivocally that I did not possess the same faith that my mother and father held. It was a truly frightening moment. Not only was I different from the children around me, but I was decidedly different from the people who raised me. I felt like an alien—an otherworldly creature that should be studied. In my despair, I realized what I wanted more than anything—I wanted to connect with something. I wanted to make a connection and form a bond that would last a lifetime. That desire—that indescribable itch to connect with someone, something—is fixed at the very heart of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Though the stories in this collection are decidedly different from one another, they are tethered by the human need to connect with someone, something else. In the collection’s titular novella, the character Agnes is desperate to find companionship in another. The novella is essentially about the lengths a person might be willing to go in order to satisfy their loved one, in order to keep their beloved from leaving.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“I learned quickly that blood is not always thicker than water. Sometimes the people that care for us the most are the people we least expect.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“I think all of us feel empty most of the time and we merely pretend to fill the vacuum with laughter, crying, apologies—anything to make us feel human.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“I once read somewhere that if your mind continuously returns to the same person over and over again, it means that they’re thinking of you as well. I hope that’s true. I’d be absolutely devastated to know it was a lie conjured by somebody who simply had too much time on their hands.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“suppose the Greek philosopher, Epicurus, was right—“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes

“So eager to disguise their pain. So willing to maintain social graces and remain polite even in the face of discomfort.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“You act like you are the only person in the world who's ever lost something, someone.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“I never want to merely go through the motions. I want to be free...”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“...as if the hand of God were curtaining the entire world.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“I guess that's what makes people do horrible things—they think whatever they're doing isn't nearly as bad as what somebody else will do.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“I think all of us feel empty most of the time and we merely pretend to fill the vacuum with laughter, crying, apologies—anything to make use feel human.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“Only this time, I decided I would accept my fate with the same dignity of a virgin martyr being led to public execution.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“As decadently red as a severed artery in full bloom”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“After all, what exactly is family, if not a brotherhood and sisterhood afflicted with the same terminal disease?”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“After all, I much prefer who I am now.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“Then again, aren't those the moments when we change the most? When we're uncomfortable?”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“When you change, the people around you start to change as well.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“We don't covet our hands until we lose a finger. We don't praise our hearing until we lose an ear. What have you done today to deserve your eyes?”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“People like to eat other people. I spent so many years forgetting I had teeth, too.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes

“It’s because the planet is a carnivore and just wants to be fed. People want that as well. People like to eat other people. I spent so many years forgetting I had teeth, too.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“And there it was. As decadently red as a severed artery in full bloom.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“There’s a reason objects burn up when they fall to earth like gruesome angels—a reason other than the obvious one. Asteroids the size of armored cars narrow to mere pebbles in a matter of seconds. It’s because the planet is a carnivore and just wants to be fed. People want that as well. People like to eat other people. I spent so many years forgetting I had teeth, too.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“There’s a reason objects burn up when they fall to earth like gruesome angels—a reason other than the obvious one. Asteroids the size of armored cars narrow to mere pebbles in a matter of seconds. It’s because the planet is a carnivore and just wants to be fed. People want that as well. People like to eat other people.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“There's a reason objects burn up when they fall to earth like gruesome angels--a reason other than the obvious one. Asteroids the size of armored cars narrow to mere pebbles in a matter of seconds. It's because the planet is a carnivore and just wants to be fed. People want that as well. People like to eat other people. I spent so many years forgetting I had teeth, too.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“You won't eat me. No matter how much you enjoy the way I taste.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“He watches as she slowly removes her earrings, as if they were somehow miniature replicas of the sadness eating away at her from the inside.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“Sometimes we say or do things to people we love because we know it will hurt them.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“It’s not that I felt empty. I think all of us feel empty most of the time and we merely pretend to fill the vacuum with laugher, crying, apologies - anything to make us feel human.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“There’s a reason objects burn up when they fall to earth like gruesome angels – a reason other than the obvious one. Asteroids the size of armored cars narrow to mere pebbles in a matter of seconds. It’s because the planet is a carnivore and just wants to be fed.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

“I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ll bet you want to know how it happened.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes