The Kind Worth Saving Quotes

“I think that romantic love, not family love, is the most destructive force on earth. It’s the only thing that makes otherwise good people hurt one another.” “It doesn’t have to.” “It does, actually. I’m not talking about what people will do for love. I’m talking about what people do to the ones they love. They break each other’s hearts.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“She laughed. “Would you really kill him if you could get away with it?” “Sure,” he said.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“Maybe my love is better because you don’t love me in return?”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“We live in an age of mass murder, and two dead bodies, even young ones, just don’t cut it, anymore.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“No, but I’ve thought a lot about it. I only wouldn’t do it because I’d probably get caught and have to spend my life in prison.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“Some people fall in love because they are excellent observers and they can see what is in front of them. And some people fall in love because they only imagine what is in front of them. They construct something that isn’t there.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“There are many things I love about cats but one of them is their short memories.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“One day in the future everyone who was there would be dead and there would be zero memory of the event. And even right now, I knew that my memories were faded and falsified by the passage of time. I opened a blank document, thinking for a moment of a poem, ideas streaming through me just out of reach. I have believed for a while that all poetry is saying the same thing--I am here--although what the poet really means is, I was there, because all poetry is just a letter to some future reader. Everything boils down to that one sentiment. I was there. I was there, and I felt things and saw things and sometimes I understood them, but most of the time I did not.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“What I like to do is sit here and listen to pressed wax and read actual fucking books and be secure in my knowledge that unless the satellites now have x-ray vision no one in the world knows what I’m listening to and reading except for me. It’s actually thrilling. Although I do realize that for a whole generation of human beings the thought of anonymity is worse than death.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“And I remembered thinking at the time that I could get behind a religion that would eventually lead to the end of the human race, the world returned to the birds and animals.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“It didn’t matter what she felt; it mattered how she acted.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“It’s no picnic having to get up every thirty minutes to play new music but I refuse to have my music choices cataloged and recorded by some Chinese aggregating corporation halfway around the world. What I like to do is sit here and listen to pressed wax and read actual fucking books and be secure in my knowledge that unless the satellites now have x-ray vision no one in the world knows what I’m listening to and reading except for me. It’s actually thrilling. Although I do realize that for a whole generation of human beings the thought of anonymity is worse than death.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

“inside the room were floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, plus several freestanding shelves in the middle of the space.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving