A.S. King

Quotes

• “All those people who are chained here thinking that their reputations matter and this little shit matters are so freakin...”
• “The boys on the front had magazines with pinups, and they talked about how one day they would score women like that, but...”
• “As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I C...”
• “Some of you have it ingrained in you. You weren't born with it. No baby has hate for anything. We were all babies once, ...”
• “There is something magical about the world at night. Sitting at the dining room table, sipping a glass of iced tea, I ca...”
• “Then I think of Charlie and our first New Year’s apart, and how I miss him. I miss him so much, but it’s confusing, beca...”
• “What occurs to me at this second is this: There is a huge world out there. I only know my dumb family and my dumb house ...”
• “Sure, Mom.They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess ...”
• “As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could ...”
• “--he stopped and eyed Bill Corso--"if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write ou...”
• “Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the cont...”
• “By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think,...”
• “I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not to...”
• “Oh. I get it now. God had Nader beat my ass and my mom leave my dad just so Jodi could learn how to chop onions and use ...”
• “You know that saying about how you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? I already did know what I had, and now that...”
• “I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how ...”
• “Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. Th...”
• “I can't help seeing a cage for what it is. Sure, it protects the bulb, but maybe if people weren't so careless, then not...”
• “She talks about how she can't exercise because of the ailments-a bad back, sore knees, breathing difficulties-all caused...”
• “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 Ca...”
• “Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.”
• “The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.”
• “She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.”
• “Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.”
• “You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.”
• “I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.”
• “Cancer doesn’t give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.”
• “She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.”
• “It's safe to tell us stuff, okay?" This means it's not safe to tell them anything.”
• “Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.”
• “maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.”
• “My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.”
• “You can't change people with love. It doesn't work that way.”
• “School’s important at the moment.Unsexiest statement ever.”
• “Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?”
• “I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.”