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Night Beach QUOTES

Night Beach QUOTES

1 " You cant rely on anybody being around for you, because things change. "

― , Night Beach

2 " This is what I love about life. The UP. You can be completely down and out, and in the next you feel like you're flying, for no reason at all. "

― , Night Beach

3 " I don't want romance and stolen kisses and sweetness and hand holding. I want something so big it's like two planets colliding, with an aftershock that I feel for the rest of my life. "

― , Night Beach

4 " Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth. "

― , Night Beach

5 " Ultimately, he’s never been within reach. That’s the key to why I’m so caught up on him – I know that. I’m obsessed. And what feeds an obsession is not getting what you want. "

― , Night Beach

6 " As if the ocean cares that it’s been zoned residential – what the sea wants, the sea shall have. "

― , Night Beach

7 " It’s not love. It’s an obsession. And it’s not art. It’s a way of seeing things. A way to see the things that aren’t there. "

― , Night Beach

8 " It was the first time I realized that your mind can’t always be trusted. If it can’t make sense of what you’re seeing, it will come up with an alternative scenario for you. "

― , Night Beach

9 " I draw the light with my fingers, and it seems to spark in response. And it’s then that the magic of this place, this night beach, gets to me. Because that sparkling thing could be anything. A fallen star, a little buried sun. I feel like I’m a kid again. When there was so much to see. So much wonder. "

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10 " He's kissing me, quick desperate kisses, like I'm something he needs to live; and I'm kissing him back, crazy with the ache I feel for him, trying to kiss him better, trying to fix him. I'm touching his face, feeling the roughness of his beard, the wet of his tears, feeling the tremors passing through his body, hearing his ragged breathing. And each kiss is a failure. A failed attempt to escape from all that's happening. And I only know this when he slows, drawing it out, letting me taste regret, letting things linger. He pulls away, and I'm saying "Don't, don't, don't", trying to bring him back, kissing his face. But I've lost him. "

― , Night Beach

11 " Kind of hard to forget a bruise exists when you’re prodding at it. "

― , Night Beach

12 " After a while I get the feeling that Mum and Brian aren’t home. Kane either. It’s because the house is making so much noise; ticking and creaking as it stretches in the sun. Acting like a house does when nobody’s around to see it. It must have forgotten about me. "

― , Night Beach

13 " At seventeen, I’m in-between. Staring at the carnival from a distance. Not sure if I want to go forward and become an adult; liking the view too much to turn back. "

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14 " The grief I’m feeling is heavy and raw, pressing down on me, breaking my chest apart. It hurts to even touch the edges of it. It’s to do with Grandad being gone. The loss of him, and the loss of me. I heard someone say once that grandparents are the guardians of our childhoods, and for the first time I really understand what that means. "

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15 " Yet, in the middle of all this grief, I realize there’s a part of me clinical enough to want to document it. People talk about artists like they’re these sensitive, delicate beings who don’t use the toilet, but I think the real ones are something else. They’re users. They’re mercenaries. They’re hunters. And they don’t let anything – other people, or themselves – get in the way of it. "

― , Night Beach

16 " And we’re both emotionally limping, because having old wounds re-opened is never fun, no matter how beneficial it might be. "

― , Night Beach

17 " But of course when you've got it bad for somebody, you aren't really sane. You're a stalker and a groupie combined, and you do things even you don't want to try and understand. "

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18 " It’s funny to me that power comes from sitting behind a desk. It should come from spending yourself. "

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19 " They’re never going to change. You gotta get that into your head. What they did up there? They’ll keep doing that forever. You know why? Because they’re withholders. That’s what power is all about. Not giving people what they want. So you know what that means? It means you’ve got to stop wanting. Stop wanting them to love you, or be proud of you, or whatever it is you’re after. ’Cause you’re not gonna get it. "

― , Night Beach

20 " I feel like I’m somebody else tonight. "

― , Night Beach