Top 100 Joseph Fink Quotes
#1. You're a good one, Jackie Fierro," they said. "And that makes the world a dangerous place for you.
Joseph Fink
#2. In other news, a man in a tan jacket, holding a deerskin suitcase, was seen. I don't remember anything about him or why this was news, but it had seemed important a the time. I wrote it down: 'Say the important thing about the man in the tan jacket.' What was it? What was I supposed to say?
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#3. Life should be like a basket of chicken wings: salty, full of fat and vinegar, and surrounded by celery you'll never actually eat, even when you're greedily sopping up the last viscous streaks of buffalo sauce from the wax paper with your spit-stained index finger. Yes,
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#4. I love you," she called, hoping it wasn't too late. "I love you too," he said back, not loudly enough to be heard.
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#5. Jackie laughed, although she didn't find it funny. There are other reasons for laughter.
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#6. Maybe she had come into existence seconds ago and had made up every moment until this moment to explain how she came to be sitting in this booth in this diner.
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#7. One day we will destroy the moon with indifference!
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#8. Most people in Night Vale get by with a cobbled-together framework of lies and assumptions and conspiracy theories. Diane was like most people. Most people are.
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#9. This is Night Vale. Our mayor once led an army of masked warriors from another dimension through magic doors to defeat an army of smiling blood-covered office workers. There is definitely, definitely another way.
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#10. Maybe you're too young to understand this, but you don't just run after people because you want to know what their deal is.
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#11. Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.
Cecil Baldwin
#12. KEVIN: We know that there has been some tension. Certain events that everyone regrets, although some regret them more than others. But we also know that nothing removes tension between rivals towns quite like a picnic, a smile, and a song. Sing louder. Louder. Good.
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#13. No one cared about a woman staring through binoculars from a parked car. It was a common sight. There were three other cars with binoculared, watching women just on that block, and that was light by Night Vale standards.
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#14. They are asking that everyone dress up as the decline of the printed word in a society reverting to a state of brainless animality.
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#15. Her mother had called, and being a good daughter was as convenient an excuse as any. Anything to avoid the library.
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#16. The moon is a trick of light suggested to us by the seas, the house thought.
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#17. Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.
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#18. In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.
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#19. History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.
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#20. People arrived in town all the time. It wasn't that distant from other places, and it was along a major thoroughfare. There was a Taco Bell where people could pee. There was a gas station where people could pee. There were all sorts of things.
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#21. Know that she was a good and hardworking intern, and that she died doing what she loved: simultaneously living and dying in infinite, fractal defiance of linear time.
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#22. People often found themselves assenting to inanimate objects in the Moonlite All-Nite.
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#23. Beyond the window was the parking lot and beyond that the desert, and beyond that the sky, mostly void, partially stars. Layered
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#24. I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes 'empowered' for 'strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with
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#25. Taking a shower often solved problems for her. She would find herself with thoughts that seemed to come from outside her, thoughts that would question decisions or offer suggestions or just consider life hazily in a way that made it seem like the thoughts could not possibly be her own.
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#26. I raised you for fifteen years. I fed you and clothed you. I loved you and still do. I love you because you have been with me for fifteen years. I am your mother because we have been together your whole childhood. I have earned you as my son.
Joseph Fink
#27. Thoughts that should be unthought before interacting with the public. Thoughts like [low guttural growl] or [knuckles crack, fists clench, teeth tighten, eyes stop letting in any new information, and water runs down a rigid face].
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#28. What did Diane know about this? What was her connection? Could she be the mastermind behind the blond man and the man in the tan jacket holding a deerskin suitcase and maybe even Jackie's mother's strange behavior?
Joseph Fink
#29. Sorry, listeners. I need to go make sure she's all right. I take you now to the sound of a human stomach digesting, heavily amplified and electronically distorted.
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#30. Some days the weather happens and we never look up or go outside and that's okay too.
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#31. It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them
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#32. She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.
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#33. If you have homes, I suggest you flee them. If you have friends, I suggest you warn them. If you have children, did you not know how dangerous and unpredictable the world was when you created a defenseless tiny human within it? And
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#34. Josh loved his mother, but he did not know why. Diane loved her son, and she did not care why.
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#35. You say your life is unraveling. Your life cannot unravel. Your life is your life. You haven't lost it, it's just... different now.
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#36. May we all be human: beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.
And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: "Past performance is not a predictor of future results.
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#37. How do you say everything you've wanted to say to a person who has been a big part of your life and doesn't know you at all? "Diane,
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#38. Nowhere, the tarantula felt nothing at all.
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#39. But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.
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#40. If you like a thing, and only one place in town serves that thing, you're going to be pretty excited by that thing, regardless of quality.
Joseph Fink
#41. It was a simpler time. Because I personally had less memories and so less to superimpose upon the world, and so it was much clearer, and also I was younger. Thus, the world was simpler.
Joseph Fink
#42. sadness is eternal, that weakness is another word for humanity, and that all will pass, all will pass. She
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#43. What?' Diane was enjoying listening to Cecil. She loved the end of his show, when he said, 'Good night, Night Vale, good night.' No matter how difficult her life was or how troublesome the news he was reporting, his voice and his sign-off put her at such ease.
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#44. Imagine teaching a fifteen-year-old how to drive a car with manual transmission. First, you have to press down the clutch. Then you have to whisper a secret into one of the cup holders.
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#45. Silence is golden. Words are vibrations. Thoughts are magic.
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#46. Night Vale, my sweet and only Night Vale, may you find love. May you find it wherever it's been hidden. May you find who has been hiding it and extract revenge upon them.
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#47. Everything I do is for a reason. And I don't know what that reason is. Everything I do is for a reason, and I know none of them. Everything makes sense, and the sense is hidden from me.
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#48. She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.
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#49. Hey, listen, I think the Arby's is hiring. Have you considered that? Their death rate is really low for the area." But
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#50. Josh looks like a lot of things. He changes his physical form constantly. In this way he is unlike most boys his age. He thinks he is several things at once, many of them contradictory. In this way he is like most boys his age.
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#51. Then you will die, but only for a little while.
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#52. As they stepped outside into the sandy dusk, the bell on the door jingled faintly in Jackie's mind like a favorite song to which she could no longer quite remember the tune.
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#53. She drove home and grabbed the things she would need to check out a book: strong rope and a grappling hook, a compass, a flare gun, matches and a can of hair spray, a sharpened wooden spear, and, of course, her library card.
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#54. None of us knows what we want to do when we're his age. When we're your age, when you're my age," said Diane, "any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we're right, but only ever in retrospect." Her
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#55. The search for truth takes us to dangerous places," said Old Woman Josie. "Often it takes us to that most dangerous place: the library. You know who said that? No? George Washington did. Minutes before librarians ate him.
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#56. It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.
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#57. Imagine a fifteen-year-old boy. Nope. That was not right at all. Try again.
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#58. Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.
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#59. Her mother rolled an avocado back and forth on the spotless tabletop. The floor and the tabletop and the walls were all the same clean color, and everything was equally clean and unused. The avocado was, of course, fake, as all avocados were.
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#60. Distance is confusing," the stranger would tell people, anyone who would listen. "So is time.
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#61. I don't know who I am and I don't understand the progression of time as it relates to me," said Jackie. Leann nodded. "We've all been there.
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#62. We understand the lights. We understand the lights above the Arby's. We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us: We don't understand even more.
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#64. see, now, that it was wrong for me to curse your particular blood to a diseased eternity of suffering. In an attempt at magnanimity I extend an apology and retract my sanguinary execration.
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#65. Sometimes it is easy to forget which things in the world can feel pain and which cannot.
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#66. If we cannot be judged on our actions, then we cannot be judged.
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#67. Who can fathom the danger and pain of a visit to the City Council?
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#69. People are beautiful when they do beautiful things.
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#70. Diane suddenly felt like the words she was saying were twisting in her mouth and coming out as different words altogether.
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#71. It will be difficult to help if you create a Culture of No, Diane.
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#72. City halls are always huge and ornate and topped with ancient volcanic stone towers.
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#73. Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don't become a statistic.
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#74. In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance.
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#75. It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.
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#76. failed to yield to hooded figures, resulting in mandatory citywide ennui for hours.
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#77. To be remembered is, I think, a badic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.
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#78. Of course, angels do not exist. It is illegal to consider their existence, or even to give them a dollar when they forget bus money and start hovering around the Ralphs asking for change.
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#79. The reading area was a beautifully crafted trap set by the librarians, but it was too perfect. Even the dumbest book lover - and anyone who would regularly choose to come in contact with books could not be a bright bulb, Jackie thought - wouldn't fall for this.
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#80. Diane turned and pointed in the direction of Evan's cubicle. But instead of a cubicle, there was a fern and an empty chair beneath a framed photo of a cloud. She wasn't sure which cloud it was.
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#81. when Cecil talked it was possible to let some of that go. To let go of the worries. To let go of the questions. To let go of letting or going.
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#82. In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.
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#83. Looking for a snack? Try wheat or a wheat by-product. Dinner? Wheat &/or its by-product. Trying to patch a leaky roof? We have just the thing for you, and we also have its by-product.
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#84. had felt good to have someone explicitly value something that she did.
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#85. People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.
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#86. Valentine's Day is a disaster. Any day that is designed to perfectly encapsulate something as messy and personal as two people in a romantic relationship would have to be. But in Night Vale it also kills people. This is called satire.
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#87. Fear is a reasonable response to life.
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#88. Having trouble sleeping? Are you awake at all hours? Do birds live in you? Are you crawling with insects? Is your skin jagged and hard? Are you covered in leaves and gently shaking in the gentle breeze?
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#89. Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.
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#90. When nothing else works, eating sure does.
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#91. Now, there is some concern about the fact that, given we are in the middle of a desert, there is no actual water at the waterfront. And that is a definite drawback, I agree.
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#92. No,' she shouted. She shouted it over and over because she didn't know what she could do to change anything and at least shouting made her feel better. No one could hear except the house and the faceless old woman who secretly lives in it.
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#93. She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.
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#94. LAUREN: We will also fill in the giant hole out back of the Ralphs.
CECIL: But where will the people who huddle there go to huddle?
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#95. I mean, I believe in mountains and all, but I understand it's a controversial viewpoint. I would never force that viewpoint on others.
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#96. Jackie's good arm was out the window, the sandy air tickling her skin with hundreds of inconsequential stings, a tangible Morse code saying something meaningless. Jackie
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#97. You still need to work on a lot of things," Diane did not say. "I'm sorry your father isn't here," she also did not say. "But I am trying so, so hard. I am, Josh. I am, I am, I am," she did not say. As far as things go, her self-control was pretty good.
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#98. There is nothing more lonely than an action taken quietly on your own, and nothing more comforting than doing that same quiet action in parallel with fellow humans doing the same action, everyone alone next to each other.
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#99. PROVERB: Eating meat is a difficult moral decision, because it's stolen, that meat. You should apologize.
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#100. I'm sorry that it was this way, Mom. Not sorry like an apology. I'm sorry as in sorrow.
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