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Heart-Shaped Box QUOTES

Heart-Shaped Box QUOTES

1 " All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

2 " Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

3 " The dead pull the living down. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

4 " He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

5 " If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

6 " He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

7 " I wish you didn't first see me takin' my clothes off for drunks. I wish we didn't meet in a strip club. I wish you could've known me before I started with that kind of thing. Before I got like I am. Before I did all the things I wish I could take back.

You know how people pay more money to buy furniture that's been roughed up a little? What do they call it? Things that have been distressed? That's because something that's seen a little wear is just more interesting than something brand-new that hasn't ever had a scuff on it. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

8 " You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

9 " 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. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

10 " If hell was anything, it was talk radio — and family. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

11 " When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

12 " That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

13 " He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

14 " I miss you, Jude. I'm looking forward to putting my arms around you. We're going to sing just like the old days. Everyone sings here. After a while it kind of sounds like screaming. Just listen. Listen and you can hear them screaming. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

15 " I feel bad for her. It's not a lot of fun, you know."
"What?"
"Being in love with you. I've been with a lot of bad guys who made me feel lousy about myself, Jude, but you're something special. Because I knew none of them really cared about me, but you do, and you make me feel like your shitty hooker anyway. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

16 " The dead win when you quit singing and let them take you on down the road with them. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

17 " I’ve always thought that when something really bad happens to a person, other people just have to know about it. You can’t be a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear you crash. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

18 " Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

19 " It was hard to venture back near the place you’d been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you’d been there. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box

20 " He had always known he would go out this way: on fire. He had always known that rage was flammable, dangerous to store under pressure, where he had kept it his whole life. "

― Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box