Dawn Razed Quotes

“But I like to think it’s because Death and I have met often enough now that we’ve built up a little professional understanding. I stay properly respectful of his icy hand ever at my back, and he gets to enjoy watching all the stupid ways I come up with to slip out of his existential headlocks. Everybody wins. Well, until I don’t.”
― Josh Erikson, Dawn Razed

“Some people really like to talk about honoring the past for what it did to make us. And while I basically understand what they mean by that and why they need to say it, I still think the sentiment is an overflowing bucket of bullshit. Sure, it may be perfectly fine for folks with pristine memories, but it leaves the rest of us dealing with the implication that all of the pain or trauma or damage we suffered along the way was somehow essential to who we eventually became. That the hurt made us stronger, or that the loss gave as much as it took. That we are who we are because of our damage and not in spite of it. And that just sucks as a philosophy. It’s a kind of societal shrug at the worst tragedies, as if to say we can’t do anything about them so we might as well attach some ephemeral pride to having survived. I don’t know. Do whatever works for you, I guess. But I for one don’t feel born from my past so much as resurrected from it. So while I might visit the grave of that life now and then, I’m certainly not wasting any money on flowers.”
― Josh Erikson, Dawn Razed

“Because in the single step between one place we know and one we don’t, anything could happen. And sometimes does.”
― Josh Erikson, Dawn Razed