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Alive at the End of the World Quotes
Alive at the End of the World
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Saeed Jones2,922 ratings, 4.33 average rating, 464 reviews
Alive at the End of the World Quotes
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“In America, a gathering of people is called target practice or a funeral, depending on who lives long enough to define the terms.”
― Alive at the End of the World
― Alive at the End of the World
“I grieve the men
I mistook for one another and the mistakes I mistook for men.”
― Alive at the End of the World
I mistook for one another and the mistakes I mistook for men.”
― Alive at the End of the World
“I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces.”
― Alive at the End of the World
― Alive at the End of the World
“Alone and night-neoned, I write read drink drug grieve and all America keeps teaching me
is that there are so many ways to die in America which, frankly, is qwhite confusing
because this country killed you a decade ago and I’m still writing reading drinking
drugging grieving binging binging blacking out in the cozy, claustrophobic home
I’ve made out of how very, very much I miss you and the sky keeps throwing
down consequences and corrections and histories and nations, I mean,
come on, who can blame me for not wanting to go back outside?”
― Alive at the End of the World
is that there are so many ways to die in America which, frankly, is qwhite confusing
because this country killed you a decade ago and I’m still writing reading drinking
drugging grieving binging binging blacking out in the cozy, claustrophobic home
I’ve made out of how very, very much I miss you and the sky keeps throwing
down consequences and corrections and histories and nations, I mean,
come on, who can blame me for not wanting to go back outside?”
― Alive at the End of the World
“The end of the world was mistaken
for just another midday massacre
in America.”
― Alive at the End of the World
for just another midday massacre
in America.”
― Alive at the End of the World
“I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry
when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting.”
― Alive at the End of the World
when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting.”
― Alive at the End of the World
“A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people but it's the unintended wounds I claim now as children.”
― Alive at the End of the World
― Alive at the End of the World
“I don't watch the video
but I can feel it playing
on a loop in a room miles
away from where he keeps
dying behind my eyes. All
I have left are tiny twitches,
small choices. "Please," I beg
alone in the box of my dark,
"I don't want to hurt that way
today. I already hurt that way
yesterday. Please don't kill him
again.”
― Alive at the End of the World
but I can feel it playing
on a loop in a room miles
away from where he keeps
dying behind my eyes. All
I have left are tiny twitches,
small choices. "Please," I beg
alone in the box of my dark,
"I don't want to hurt that way
today. I already hurt that way
yesterday. Please don't kill him
again.”
― Alive at the End of the World
“We dialed the newly dead
but they wouldn't answer. We texted,
begging us to call them back, but
the newly dead don't know how to
read. In America, a gathering of people
is called target practice or a funeral,
depending on who lives long enough
to define the terms.”
― Alive at the End of the World
but they wouldn't answer. We texted,
begging us to call them back, but
the newly dead don't know how to
read. In America, a gathering of people
is called target practice or a funeral,
depending on who lives long enough
to define the terms.”
― Alive at the End of the World
