Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? Quotes

“Red flags look like confetti when you’re falling for someone.”
― Zach Zimmerman, Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

“I’ve been working on something pretty big for a while, a legacy project really,” he told me. “What can you say about it?” “It’s a custom torture device.” He moved his piece. “King me.” I kinged him. “It analyzes your life, everything that ever happened, and creates a perfect form of torture that’s suited only to you.” “What’s mine?” I asked without thinking. His face sank. “Why would you want to know?” “I’m just kidding. Well, I mean, just curious.” “Do you have a guess?” he asked with a grin. “Maybe moving back in with my parents?” “That would be the worst thing?” “I suppose not. Maybe having my heart broken repeatedly? Solitary confinement?” “If you really want to know …” I nodded. He put down the checker piece in his hand. “Everything you’ve been through was part of it. Your parents, your ex, your jobs, your friends, every hell you’ve been through, and every hell you’ve created in your mind.” “But I found the meaning in all of that,” I countered. “I learned the lesson. I grew.” Satan smiled and jumped my last piece. “That’s the torture, Zach. Making you search for meaning where there is none.”
― Zach Zimmerman, Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

“The gap between who I am and who I think I might become is never larger than when I’m packing.”
― Zach Zimmerman, Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

“But I’m not Dad’s therapist. I’m his child, and I still want an “I’m sorry.” An apology for why I imagine burning in Hell on turbulent flights, after I jerk off, and after naps. For why I have a hole in me so large only Christianity can fill it. For why my journey to find myself has been polluted with the poison of eternal doubt.”
― Zach Zimmerman, Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

“Turns out the secret to salvation from Hell is to stop believing in it.”
― Zach Zimmerman, Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

“Buddhism mentions dukkha—life is suffering. Not painful, but unsatisfied. When you are not satisfied with your life, you are suffering.”
― Zach Zimmerman, Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

“I cried because when you grow up feeling on the fringe, it’s easy to reject an invitation to come inside.”
― Zach Zimmerman, Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?