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41 " Sometimes two people can love each other, even though one is a wrist and the other a razor. "
― Joey Comeau
42 " I wish being in love was enough. I wish it counted for anything at all. "
43 " We're not going to do better next time. "
44 " Love is a dream someone else had last night. "
45 " You are never so low that you deserve to be lower. "
46 " I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic. "
― Joey Comeau , Lockpick Pornography
47 " I think the best life would be one that's lived off the grid. No bills, your name in no government databases. No real proof you're even who you say you are, aside from, you know, being who you say you are. I don't mean living in a mountain hut with solar power and drinking well water. I think nature's beautiful and all, but I don't have any desire to live in it. I need to live in a city. I need pay as you go cell phones in fake names, wireless access stolen or borrowed from coffee shops and people using old or no encryption on their home networks. Taking knife fighting classes on the weekend! Learning Cantonese and Hindi and how to pick locks. Getting all sorts of skills so that when your mind starts going, and you're a crazy raving bum, at least you're picking their pockets while raving in a foreign language at smug college kids on the street. At least you're always gonna be able to eat. "
48 " Hello, there should be more advice about dealing with depression when you're stupid and worthless, so here is a self help exercise.Today's assignment is simple. Just go out and get on the bus.It doesn't matter which bus. Whichever bus comes next. Get on, and just go. You could ride that bus to the very end, thank the driver, and then walk into the woods and just die. Just lay down right there and wait and wait until you were dead. Who is going to miss you?Really, think about it. If you went out to the middle of nowhere and just sat down in a ditch and cried by yourself until you were dead, who would be the first person to wonder where you'd gone?Call them up! Maybe they want to get ice cream? "
49 " We'll wake up every day and we'll tell ourselves, "Live for today, you retarded little shit. The end is near. "
― Joey Comeau , Overqualified
50 " Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go. "
51 " Memories are like everything else. They're a trap. "
52 " I live to feel her fingers move inside of me like this. The busmakes another stop. A fat man climbs aboard, hauling himself up the stairs. I would kill him for one more moment with her fingers inside me. I don’t have to. She gives me my moment for free. He lives because of her generosity. We all live because of her generosity. "
― Joey Comeau , The Girl Who Couldn't Come
53 " Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down. "
― Joey Comeau , A Softer World: Truth and Beauty Bombs
54 " Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young. "
55 " I hope that you are a disaster. I'm sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope you are a forest fire, I hope you kill the dead wood and burn off the rotting leaves. With the canopy gone, the sun can get in. You need new growth. I hope you're terrible and broken and perfect. "
56 " I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don't feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait. "
― Joey Comeau , We all got it coming
57 " She wears glasses that are not too small. I wish I was a girl like that. I wear contact lenses because glasses make me look like I am wearing glasses. I am not saying this properly. When she wears glasses she looks so quiet, like a grenade with the pin still in. "
58 " Our love is a forest fire and we are the little things that live in the trees. "
59 " Halfway through the televised debate I kick my boot into the screen. Even on mute I can't stand it. It feels good to smash the TV, though. I feel like I'm participating in the political system. "
60 " I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me.For Eternity? No thanks. "
― Joey Comeau , It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry