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Dark Matter QUOTES

Dark Matter QUOTES

1 " We leave this life the same way that we enter it, totally alone, bereft. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

2 " The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

3 " I stare down into her eyes, smoky and glistening in the light stealing through the window.

Eyes you can fall into and keep falling.

She isn't the mother of my son, she isn't my wife, we haven't made a life together, but I love her all the same, and not jsut the version of Daniela that exists in my head, in my history. I love the physical woman underneath me in this bed here and now, wherever this is, because it's the same arrangement of matter--same eyes, same voice, same smell, same taste...

It isn't married-people lovemaking that follows.

We have fumbling, groping, backseat-of-the-car, unprotected-because-who-gives-a-fuck, protons-smashing-together sex. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

4 " It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

5 " I pass a construction site, abandoned for the night, and a few blocks later, the playground of the elementary school my son attended, the metal sliding board gleaming under a streetlamp and the swings stirring in the breeze.
There's an energy to these autumn nights that touches something primal inside of me. Something from long ago. From my childhood in western Iowa. I think of high school football games and the stadium lights blazing down on the players. I smell ripening apples, and the sour reek of beer from keg parties in the cornfields. I feel the wind in my face as I ride in the bed of an old pickup truck down a country road at night, dust swirling in the taillights and the entire span of my life yawning out ahead o me.
It's the beautiful thing about youth.
There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential.
I love my life, but I haven't felt that lightness of being in ages. Autumn nights like this are as close as I get. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

6 " The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

7 " Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

8 " Suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

9 " I've seen so many versions of you. With me. Without me. Artist. Teacher. Graphic designer. But it's all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you're in it, it's all just day-to-day, right? And isn't that what you have to make your peace with? "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

10 " Will I keep fighting to be the man I think I am? Or will I disown him and everything he loves, and step into the skin of the person this world would like for me to be? "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

11 " It’s like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was this new country. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

12 " All your life you’re told you’re unique. An individual. That no one on the planet is just like you. It’s humanity’s anthem. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

13 " It’s a strange thing, being the parent of a teenager. One thing to raise a little boy, another entirely when a person on the brink of adulthood looks to you for wisdom. I feel like I have little to give. I know there are fathers who see the world a certain way, with clarity and confidence, who know just what to say to their sons and daughters. But I’m not one of them. The older I get, the less I understand. I love my son. He means everything to me. And yet, I can’t escape the feeling that I’m failing him. Sending him off to the wolves with nothing but the crumbs of my uncertain perspective. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

14 " We’re all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglas. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

15 " It's a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

16 " What a strange thing to consider imagining a world into being with nothing but words, intention, and desire. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

17 " This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billion. We’re not just looking into space, we’re looking back through time. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

18 " If there are a million ponds out there, with versions of you and me living similar and different lives, there’s none better than right here, right now. I’m more sure of that than anything in the world. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

19 " My life is great. It’s just not exceptional. And there was a time when it could have been.” “You killed your ambition, didn’t you?” “It died of natural causes. Of neglect. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter

20 " It occurs to me that if I do survive, I'll carry a new revelation with me for the rest of my days: we leave this life the way we enter it–totally alone, bereft. "

― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter