Mosquitoland
David Arnold
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”
“When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice.”
“Every great character, Iz, be it on page or screen, is multidimensional. The good guys aren't all good, the bad guys aren't all bad, and any character wholly one or the other shouldn't exist at all. Remember this when I describe the antics that follow, for though I am not a villain, I am not immune to villainy.”
“I'm feeling reckless - or honest, maybe. Sometimes, it's hard to tell the difference.”
“I swear the older I get, the more I value bad examples over good ones. It's a good thing too, because most people are egotistical, neurotic, self-absorbed peons, insistent on wearing near-sighted glasses in a far-sighted world. And it's this exact sort of myopic ignorance that has led to my groundbreaking new theory. I call it Mim's Theorem of Monkey See Monkey Don't, and what it boils down to is this: it is my belief that there are some people whose sole purpose of existence is to show the rest of how not to act.”
“As simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are—and who you are not—is not the most important thing of all Important Things.”
“You spend you life roaming the hillsides, scouring the four corners of the earth, searching desperately for just one persons to fucking get you. And I’m thinking, if you can find that, you’ve found home.”
“I swear, the longer I live, the less things make sense.”
“You know–I think my best course of action is to just let the ridiculousness of that sentence marinate.”
“Life can be a real son of a bitch sometimes, bringing things back around long after you've said good-bye.”
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Book Keywords:
mosquitoland, beck-van-buren, mim-malone
