When We Were Animals
Joshua Gaylord
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It’s funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.”
“It was possible, I saw now, to be a grotesque, to be huge and free, to wander the streets in utter freedom despite your atrocity, as long as you did it when everybody else was sealed inside their little lit boxes. Now it made sense – why monsters came out at night.”
“Rather than simply being subject to them, I had wanted to know what it felt like to be one of the forces in this world.”
“We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.”
“Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.”
“Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves.”
“I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.”
“Promises are easy to make. [...] They speak of a defined future to which you are required to adhere. They commit you beyond the length of your experience. What they do is take away possibility. Promises are the opposite of hope.”
“It is always a young girl's dream to have a boy believe in her most colorful fantasies. You paint landscapes with your humble heart, then you seek to populate them with boys who will understand.”
“I thought it must be difficult for him, for boys. They get temperamental when they can't shape the world into what they want it to be. It's easier for girls. Girls are raised knowing that the world is unshapable. So they know better than to fuss.”
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Book Keywords:
memories, lumen, monsters, grief, agency, difference, relationships, adolescence, hurt
