Quotes from Joey Comeau

Maybe next year is the year. Maybe last year.

I like falling off my skateboard the way I like loving you. Broken hearts, like broken bones, hurt well.

Email me dirty pictures of you with my name in marker everywhere. I get crazy thinking about your eyes when you cry. I miss you all wrong.

After you died, I got a puppy. I wear your clothes and tease her sometimes, in case you come back.

On days like this, I would just disappear if it weren't for you and your love, like nails in my feet.

Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it.

I said I would never leave you, but come on. What are you, new?

As near as I can tell, he wished for this moment to last forever. So we sit and hold hands and I am always about to leave.

We can see the mushroom cloud and we are going to die soon, no matter what we do or eat or say. I wish I had known this all along.

In the end it doesn't matter if this creature is really our mother. We feed it things and tell it about our problems. It's still all about us.

They should have included a picture of your smile in the space probe as a warning.

There are no sweeter words than this: nothing lasts forever.

I wish there were a better than 'sorry'. But then, I'd probably need a better word than that.

I will always love you, or anyway, I will always have loved you now.

If you repeat a word again and again, it loses it's meaning. Apparently this also works with heartbreak.

You are love of my life so far.

Ah, love at first sight. When you see someone so beautiful that you forget they aren't there just for you.

I want people to tell their children terrifying stories about the things we did for love.

If I could change anything about you, it would be a mistake.

When I was just a little girl I asked my mummy, "what should I be?" "Fuck should," she said.

We can't be the only living things with an immortal soul - a city needs parks. Even heaven.

I love my puppy. I love that he is so young and full of life, and that he will still die first.

I'm tired of being a dinosaur. Let's be meteors.

I don't want a world without pain, or loss. I just want them to mean something.