Joey Comeau Quotes

#1. I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don't feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait.

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#2. Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.

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#3. You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.

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#4. Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

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#5. The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.

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#6. I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.

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#7. Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

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#8. There is no subtle way to mention you miss the curve of someone's ass.

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#9. Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.

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#10. Wait," I say. "Aren't soulmates supposed to be perfect? What if you find yours and shes not a virgin, not even a girl? What if he's a fixer upper? What if he has an STD?

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#11. And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we'll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we'll rain down on somewhere else.

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#12. There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.

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#13. Before your mother I didn't spend too long with any one girl. I used to believe that life was too short. I was too young to settle down. Then I met your mother and fell in love. Now I think maybe I was right. I was too young to settle down.

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#14. I want something from her, but I don't know what it is. I guess that means sex.

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#15. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

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#16. Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

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#17. There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.

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#18. Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

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#19. Oh, thank goodness you're here," the priest said. "I think this poor boy tried to kill himself with a sledgehammer.

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#20. We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

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#21. Judge if you want, we are all going to die. I intend to deserve it.

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#22. I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

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#23. Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

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#24. When I played doctor I played to win.

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#25. Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)

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#26. I hope that you are a disaster. I'm sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope you are a forest fire, I hope you kill the dead wood and burn off the rotting leaves. With the canopy gone, the sun can get in. You need new growth. I hope you're terrible and broken and perfect.

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#27. I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.

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#28. Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down.

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#29. When the end comes, I hope it's as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we've never seen before.

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#30. If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.

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#31. We'll wake up every day and we'll tell ourselves, Live for today, you retarded little shit. The end is near.

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#32. She wears glasses that are not too small. I wish I was a girl like that. I wear contact lenses because glasses make me look like I am wearing glasses. I am not saying this properly. When she wears glasses she looks so quiet, like a grenade with the pin still in.

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#33. Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.

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#34. I want to make something, and I want people to know I made it.

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#35. Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

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#36. I get scared thinking about the yawning void of space and the maddening smallness of our solar system in it, and the smallness of our planet in that solar system and of my own voice in the dark.

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#37. Listening to music that I hate calms me down.

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#38. Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

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#39. Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

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#40. Wait, wait, wait," he said, and everyone stopped to listen. "This is about those children I murdered, isn't it?" He laughed. "Listen," he said. "If you spare the axe, you spoil the child.

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#41. I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.

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#42. Our love is a forest fire and we are the little things that live in the trees.

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#43. I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.

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#44. Halfway through the televised debate I kick my boot into the screen. Even on mute I can't stand it. It feels good to smash the TV, though. I feel like I'm participating in the political system.

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#45. Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.

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#46. Memories are like everything else. They're a trap.

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#47. Romance is all about making a story out of our love

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#48. Being in love is totally punk rock.

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