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121 " I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker. "
― Joe Hill , NOS4A2
122 " She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe. "
123 " I am; I was. I want to be. "
― Joe Hill , Horns
124 " What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive. "
125 " Love requires Context. "
126 " No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom. "
127 " Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers. "
― Joe Hill , 20th Century Ghosts
128 " Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner. "
129 " It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant. "
130 " Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones you've left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had. "
― Joe Hill , The Fireman
131 " The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. "
― Joe Hill
132 " You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor. "
― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box
133 " Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team? "
134 " Sooner or later a black car came for everyone. "
135 " You can't let facts get in the way of the truth. "
136 " The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life. "
137 " Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed. "
138 " The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto. "
139 " I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind. "
140 " It’s so fucking cheap when people say I love you. It’s a name to stick on a surge of hormones, with a little hint of loyalty thrown in. I’ve never liked saying it. Here’s what I say: We’re together, now and until the end. You have everything I need to be happy. You make me feel right. "