Top 39 Marina Keegan Quotes
#1. So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.
Marina Keegan
#2. I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.
Marina Keegan
#3. The game meandered on and stories began to take over. It was getting late but going to bed meant good-bye so we pushed forward
Marina Keegan
#4. Brian's death was the clearest and most horrifying example of my terrific obsession with the unattainable. Alive, his biggest flaw was most likely that he liked me. Dead, his perfections were clearer.
Marina Keegan
#5. Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.
Marina Keegan
#6. I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting.
Marina Keegan
#7. I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor.
Marina Keegan
#8. I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear - at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five - we might forget.
Marina Keegan
#9. There are so many places I still want to go, so many things I still want to do!
Marina Keegan
#10. Everything will be destroyed no matter how hard we work to create it. The idea terrifies me. I want tiny permanents. I want gigantic permanents! I want what I think and who I am captured in an anthology of indulgence I can comfortingly tuck into a shelf in some labyrinthine library.
Marina Keegan
#11. What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.
Marina Keegan
#12. Fifty stranded whales are a tangible crisis with a visible solution. There's camaraderie in the process, a Free Willy fantasy, an image of Flipper in everyone's mind. There's nothing romantic about waking up a man on a park bench and making him walk to a shelter.
Marina Keegan
#14. She had the rare combination of being quiet and popular, a code that made her intimidating to younger, fashionable girls and mysterious to older, confident boys.
Marina Keegan
#16. The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.
Marina Keegan
#17. I miss dreaming forwards," Anna said.
"What?"
"I dream backwards now. You won't believe how backwards you'll dream someday.
Marina Keegan
#18. When a young person dies, much of the tragedy lies in her promise: what she would have done.
Marina Keegan
#19. I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.
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#20. something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.
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#21. I suppose that without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism.
Marina Keegan
#22. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.
Marina Keegan
#23. Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything ...
And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.
Marina Keegan
#24. Secretly, of course, the pauses in our correspondence were as calculated as our casualness.
Marina Keegan
#25. I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.
Marina Keegan
#26. When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don't discriminate.
Marina Keegan
#27. I have seen too many young writers give up because they couldn't handle the repeated failures their profession threw at them. They had talent, but they lacked determination and resilience. Marina had all three, and that's why I am certain she would have succeeded.
Marina Keegan
#28. I'm just tired. I'm tired all the time. I wake up and I'm tired, I go to sleep and I'm tired.
Marina Keegan
#29. I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness.
Marina Keegan
#30. We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
Marina Keegan
#31. I want enough time to be in love with everything ...
Marina Keegan
#32. We're our own hardest critics and it's easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating.
Marina Keegan
#33. Everyone else is so successful, and I hate them.
Marina Keegan
#34. The best years of our lives are not behind us. They're part of us and they are set for repetition as we grow up and move to New York and away from New York and wish we did or didn't live in New York.
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#35. What bothers me is this idea of validation, of rationalization. The notion that some of us (regardless of what we tell ourselves) are doing this because we are not sure what else to do and it's easy to apply to and it will pay us decently and it will make us feel like we're still successful.
Marina Keegan
#36. We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.
Marina Keegan
#37. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious.
Marina Keegan
#38. I figured I wasn't supposed to be capable of that kind of thinking, and I felt like an alien. I feel that a lot, actually, in a lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don't.
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#39. I thought I'd be helping the world, not ignoring it.
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