Quotes About Revelation

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. So you just walk home.

The most boring thing in the entire world, Brandy says, is nudity. The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ...The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past. So Brandy never asked me anything.

You had a near life experience.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble

The truth is nobody here is as stupid or evil as I let on. Except me.

I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise.

You can tell peo­ple the truth, but they'll nev­er be­lieve you un­til the event. Un­til it's too late. In the mean­time, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trou­ble.

Rip yourself open. Tell me my life story before I die. Sew yourself shut.

Come le funi che aprono il sipario di un teatro, ogni tuo sorriso è un debutto. Una prima. Tu che sveli te stesso.

The sun's outside the bathroom window, trying to show us we're all being stupid. All you have to do is look around.

Ev­ery­thing they be­lieved in turned out to be wrong.

Adam said the other blessing you have to give up in the outside world is darkness.

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything is a self-potrait. Everything is a diary.

That would be like breaking a mirror for showing you the truth.

Give me a voice. Flash. Give me a face.

Nevertheless, here it is: my Hideous Admission. I'll fess up and come clean. I'm out of the closet. I'm dead. Now don't hold it against me.

Santa Claus is just a story, says Seth. He's just the opening band to God. There is no Santa Claus.

The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved?