“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“We smile, because this is how we save the world.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
“All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.”
― Isaac Marion, quote from Warm Bodies
Isaac Marion
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“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."
"True," said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggerel myself.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Purloined Letter
“And that's when I realized that there's really two ways people cry. You cry when you're sorry for yourself, and then you cry when you are really sad. The tears you cry for yourself? Those are kid tears. You're crying because you want somebody to help you or pick you up. Your mom, your dad, the old lady next door... anyone.”
― Fuyumi Ono, quote from The Twelve Kingdoms: Skies of Dawn
“Because you’re a straight, Laura.” “Stop calling me that!” Laura said. “What makes you so different?” “Look at you,” Carlotta said. “You’re educated. You’re smart. You’re beautiful. You’re married to a goddamn architect. You have a wonderful baby and friends in high places.” Her eyes narrowed; she began to hiss. “Then look at me. I’m a cracker. Ugly. No family. Daddy used to beat me up. I never finished school—I can’t hardly read and write. I’m diselxic, or whatever they call it. You ever wonder what happens to people who can’t read and write? In your fucking beautiful Net world with all its fucking data? No, you never thought of that, did you? If I found a place for myself, it was in the teeth of people like you.”
― Bruce Sterling, quote from Islands in the Net
“O great and mighty Master Li, pray impart to me the Secret of Wisdom!’ he bawled. A silly smile was sliding down the side of his face like a dripping watercolor, and his eyeballs resembled a pair of pink pigeon eggs that were gently bouncing in saucers of yellow won-ton soup. To my great credit I never batted an eyelash. ‘Take a large bowl,’ I said. ‘Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logic, and lunacy. Darken the mixture with bitter tears, brighten it with howls of laughter, toss in three thousand years of civilization, bellow kan pei—which means “dry cup”—and drink to the dregs.’ Procopius stared at me. ‘And I will be wise?’ he asked. ‘Better,’ I said. ‘You will be Chinese.’” Li”
― Barry Hughart, quote from The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
“Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises. . . .”
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