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It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2) QUOTES

It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2) QUOTES

1 " Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

2 " Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

3 " Jamillah was still holding the power drill. She liked to always carry it, just in case she found herself in a situation where it would be useful. And when you always carry a power drill, almost every situation seems like a situation in which a drill would be useful. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

4 " Sometimes it's okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

5 " He was not so arrogant as to refer to his own death as The End, just one of billions of ends before The End. Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

6 " That’s a simplification. Just because something eventually doesn’t work out doesn’t mean it never worked out. It was working out fine until, not much later, it wasn’t working out at all. Happiness is not canceled out by unhappiness. A relationship is not canceled out by its end. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

7 " Everyone in this town is frightening and friendly and kind and awful. But everyone everywhere is. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

8 " Saying a moment is awkward has never made an awkward moment better, but it’s a tactic that humans keep trying over and over. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

9 " A story never stands on its own, but exists in the context of the storyteller. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

10 " But a person doesn’t need experience or knowledge of something to have opinions about it. It turns out all they need for that are opinions. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

11 " There are moments in life in which it is made clear to us how vastly we have misunderstood. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

12 " It felt like illness, but it was only existence. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

13 " It's a kind of assault, this constant insistence that we can't be publicly acknowledged. Sometimes an act as simple as a person recognizing you, your bulk, the tangibility of your skin. That can mean everything. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

14 " Aren't we all, metaphorically, just looking for a bathroom? "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

15 " The sky once loved a certain rock. Bur millennia of erosion transformed the rock to dust. The sky, not understanding, still signals for its friend who abandoned it. The rock never knew about the sky. The rock only loved the wind that was slowly eroding it. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

16 " He recognized them for what they were: humans, who were right about some things and wrong about other things and certain about everything. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

17 " Mountains, real or not, ring this desert like the rim of an empty dinner plate. Scattered sparsely along the flat middle are small towns with names like Red Mesa, Pine Cliff, and, right in the center, Night Vale. Above Night Vale are helicopters, protecting citizens from themselves and others. Above the helicopters are stars, which are completely meaningless. Above the stars is the void, which is completely meaningful. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

18 " What use is the truth in a world where we die either way? Isn't it better to live happy until that last moment, believing the story you are living, shoulder to shoulder with others who believe and live that same story? Why flounder in the void when there is no need to do so? The story ends the same way, no matter how you chose to perceive it. Why not choose to perceive it as meaningful? "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

19 " As the saying goes, ‘Those who fail to understand history are doomed, as are those who do understand it. "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

20 " Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy? "

― Joseph Fink , It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)