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Alice Isn't Dead QUOTES

Alice Isn't Dead QUOTES

1 " Grey men in grey suits going greyly about the tedious business of running the world "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

2 " If a point of view becomes one’s entire identity, what was monstrous on the inside can become monstrous on the outside. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

3 " The stories of old women are the quiet, overlooked fabric of history. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

4 " A life does not have to be satisfying or triumphant. A life does not have to mean anything or lead anywhere. A life does not need a direction or a goal. But sometimes a person is lucky enough to have a life with all that anyway. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

5 " The only way to be brave is to first be afraid. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

6 " Each death leads to smaller, invisible deaths inside the hearts of those left behind. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

7 " Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

8 " We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

9 " She couldn’t go home. Because home wasn’t a place. Home was a person. And she hadn’t found that person yet. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

10 " Happiness is not negated by subsequent pain. But it does make the possibility for future happiness seem dimmer. Every good moment is shadowed by the question of that moment's longevity. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

11 " Why did the chicken cross the road? Because on one side was everything she had ever known and on the other side was a future, maybe, and even though she was afraid to leave everything she had ever known, she also wanted a future, maybe, and so hesitating, and then not, and then moving quickly, running, sprinting, even, desperate, she crossed, and found a future, maybe, leaving behind everything she had ever known. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

12 " A life does not need to be satisfying or triumphant. A life does not need to mean anything or lead anywhere. A life does not need a direction or a goal. Ultimately, a life merely needs to be lived until there is no more living left to do. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

13 " A few bad apples, shit. Good apples and bad apples don’t matter if the outcome of the system is harmful. A good person doesn’t matter if they’re working in a bad system. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

14 " I am glad I met you,' they said. 'I think I loved you. I don’t know if I can feel something as uncomplicated as love anymore. But I know that there are moments I’m still experiencing in which I love you. I don’t think you will see me again. But know that I am always seeing you, at every moment we had together, forever. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

15 " Inside she would be a vessel of fluids and mourning. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

16 " They knew, but didn’t like it, and so made a choice to not know. People are capable of that, of knowing but choosing at the same time not to know. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

17 " It’s a long and desolate way from Florida to Atlanta. The landscape is constructed of billboards. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

18 " her parents knew. Except in some ways they didn’t know. They knew, but didn’t like it, and so made a choice to not know. People are capable of that, of knowing but choosing at the same time not to know. Eventually "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

19 " It made Keisha feel like there was no center to it all, and that what had seemed to be the world was only a temporary arrangement of light. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead

20 " All luck runs out eventually. Otherwise it wouldn’t be luck. "

― Joseph Fink , Alice Isn't Dead