14 Quotes Tagged: chaos-walking

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

"Do you believe there's hope at the end?"
"No, no, I dont, but im still going, you coming with me?"

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

War makes monsters of men,

I’ll find you — Keep calling for me, Viola — Cuz here I come.

And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.

"Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."
"Ah, so I did."

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.

Let the battle for peace commence

"I look at the knife-
Resting in a puddle of water-
Near the ledge by the pulpit behind Aaron-
Where I dropped it-
And I hear it calling to me-
Take me, it says-
Take me and use me, it says-
Aaron hold open his arms.
"Murder me," he says. "Become a man."
Never let me go says the knife"

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’
‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?

War makes monsters out of men.

And it feels like, finally.