Quotes from Joey Comeau

I know that I don't deserve you, but that's okay. Life's not fair.

Judge if you want. We are all going to die; I intend to deserve it.

It turns out that sometimes the future actually belongs to someone else.

Okay, now imagine I am falling in love with you. Can you picture it? Now picture that backwards.

I know I want love, but I have no idea who will make me happy. Emptiness doesn't know its own shape.

Sometime when two people love each other, it's really unfortunate.

Nothing can change the way I feel about you. I wish it could.

I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd; the way your mother warned you about, essentially.

I wish there was a word that meant goodbye for someone who was already gone.

My mother took off when I was little. I want to hunt her down and tell her how proud I am.

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

When we die, I believe we go to a better place: nowhere.

Death is not the end. Death is the credits rolling. The movie was over a while ago.

When people say our love won't last forever, it sounds like they think anything will.

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

The more things change, the more you still don't love me.

You and me will died the way we lived; telling ourselves stories to make it mean something.

Love is stupid. Happiness is admitting we aren't better than stupid.

People helping each other in the aftermath of tragedy is the only really convincing argument for people.

It must be nice, being perfect, but some of us have to live in this world.

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.

When we die, we come bac different. Like, with greener eyes, or as some far off star.

As a child, I learned that books can set you free, an encyclopaedia held over my head, waiting in the dark as he crept into my room.

She always thought I was joking about putting her in a home. I thought so too.