Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
A.S. King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.”
“You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.”
“We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.”
“I wished I could take her to the library and hand her over to the librarians. Please teach her about everything, I'd say.”
“Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.”
“Maybe smiling at people would be my new revenge on the bullshit world.”
“I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute.”
“Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogus and pornographic society actually was a good thing? I hoped so. I hoped there was an army of us out there, smiling about it that very moment.”
“We all had our collective heads in the oven.”
“As I walked back to the porch, I was thankful. I'd been so preoccupied with whether or not I would turn into Darla--so busy being the walking picture of emptiness--that I'd overlooked society's expectations of me. I smiled at this. Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogus and pornographic society was a good thing? I hoped so. I hoped there was an army of us out there, smiling about it that very moment.”
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