“How do you file a restraining order against sadness?”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“My two best friends are dead, which means they're great listeners now, but lousy as far as support goes.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Otherwise I'll do something that I won't be able to live with. And that's important to me, being able to live with my actions. My thoughts are a different story. They've my own and they don't hurt anyone but me.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“And while I tell him all my thoughts, I don't always share my secrets.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Love fills all the gaps in our souls.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“You'll love him. Or maybe you'll just love him a time or two.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“She's unhurt—or at least not bleeding on the oustide.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Please don't' ask me how I feel about it. If I had to pick a word, I'd say homicidal.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“I think my invisibility cloak just failed.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“You're on a blind date. The only other questions is: Why aren't you drinking heavily?”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“If the world ends tomorrow, understand that I regret saying no.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“I've heard the story about the woman who opened the box and let havoc grab a choke hold on the world.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“He reels me in, cups my face with both hands, and becomes my whole world. This is a kiss--maybe the last one we'll ever know, so we stay there forever, warm and safe. When he pulls away, something is lost. I think it's my heart.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“It's satisfying. It yields immediate results. Something is dirty. Then it's not.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“When I awake, the world is still gone.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“I have two choices: attend my sister's dinner party or tie a plastic sack around my mother's head until she runs out of ngagging. I choose the evil that doesn't come witha felony conviction.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Can I ask you something?
Boxers. Briefs exacerbate my claustrophobia.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Five years, my family thinks it's time I moved on. I'd like to move on with a non-asshole”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Are you menstruating?
what?
You're angry. Women are often angry when they menstruate. It is the hormones.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges. Saints on one end, sinners on the other.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“I pray to a God I don't really have faith in just so I feel like I have company.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Do you realize you're talking to yourself?
Yes.
It's good that you know the difference.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“You're not dead.
I'm not dead.
Why? How?
Dying wasn't on my list.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Our new intern sorts pot shards like some kind of savant. The other interns call himi Rain Man.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“If you kill him, call me. I'm bound by doctor client privilege.
Really?
No, but the courts make exceptions for assholes.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Do you want me, too?
Yes. And no.
I'll take that. For now.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Just a cold. And I think maybe I'm pregnant, because I'm always riding the porcelain bus, or thinking about it.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
“Just say the word and I'll make him stay.
I have to do it.
There's no have to. Not even now.”
― Alex Adams, quote from White Horse
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“...making some noise in the woods is a thing that one can forget. The sound of a man’s voice on the other hand, is something else entirely.”
― Angelo Tsanatelis, quote from Origins
“But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from Orthodoxy
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.”
― W.G. Sebald, quote from The Rings of Saturn
“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason's most important occupations? Still more, how little cause have we to place trust in our reason if in one of the most important parts of our desire for knowledge it does not merely forsake us but even entices us with delusions and in the end betrays us!
Or if the path has merely eluded us so far, what indications may we use that might lead us to hope that in renewed attempts we will be luckier than those who have gone before us?”
― Immanuel Kant, quote from Critique of Pure Reason
“Explain somethin' to me, babe, why is it you always wanna stop talking when I'm winnin' the fuckin' argument?”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Gamble
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