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Glory O'Brien's History of the Future QUOTES

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future QUOTES

1 " You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

2 " Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

3 " Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

4 " I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

5 " By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3.

I think, in life, most of us did this all the time. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

6 " My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

7 " I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by goddamned yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I’ll miss the times. I’ll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too? "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

8 " We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

9 " I wished I could take her to the library and hand her over to the librarians. Please teach her about everything, I'd say. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

10 " Maybe smiling at people would be my new revenge on the bullshit world. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

11 " I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

12 " Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogus and pornographic society actually was a good thing? I hoped so. I hoped there was an army of us out there, smiling about it that very moment. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

13 " We all had our collective heads in the oven. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

14 " As I walked back to the porch, I was thankful. I'd been so preoccupied with whether or not I would turn into Darla--so busy being the walking picture of emptiness--that I'd overlooked society's expectations of me.

I smiled at this.

Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogus and pornographic society was a good thing? I hoped so. I hoped there was an army of us out there, smiling about it that very moment. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

15 " You are not your virginity. You are a human being. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

16 " I took pictures of the people who thought they were my friends, but who I'd never let all the way in. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

17 " I have wrinkles. I am not tortured by them. I am no one special and so what if I have wrinkles? One day I will be no one special and be dead. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

18 " You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth. Okay? They’re fucking with us. They’ve been fucking with us since the beginning of time. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

19 " Not living your life is like killing yourself, only it takes longer. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

20 " This is where the runaway train started down the track. I was inside the dining car enjoying a plate of cookies or something. I didn't feel it then. But the train had been boarded on Saturday night when we drank the bat. And this was the beginning of its journey. Right here. "

― A.S. King , Glory O'Brien's History of the Future