Fell of Dark
Patrick Downes
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You want to pass, or miss a turn. You have to move, though. When you do, you’re suddenly weak. Zugzwang.”
“Eulogy: He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk. A boy made of milk and concrete. He was cut in two. He bled and died. A stranger smart enough to steal a child and lock a door took the boy's life. The man cut him in half, then chewed him up. Blood and rubble. Even though the boy was dead, he dreamed up a girl with skin and hair of light taking care of him, holding his hand, He dreamed the girl gave him a kiss, and he wondered if the kiss would send him back to the world. It didn't. It kept him under. He sleeps in the box with the girl made from light. We have to forget him so we can take him with us.”
“Write more, read more, think more”
“So I stay in bed, thinking, not even reading. I write poems. I cry. I sleep. I become one with the bed, rooted. I'm sort of a mushroom.”
“I want to feel normal. I want to be normal.”
“When you play board games, you learn about your mind and other people's minds. You find out whether or not you take risks, whether or not you're a short- or long-range thinker, whether or not you like to wager.”
“There are stacks of books everywhere, and the shelves where books live are all bowed. They'll collapse at some point.”
“My mother had raised me to be a gentleman. I carry bags when I can. I open doors. I stand when a woman enters the room. I offer my seat. I walk on the outside.”
“Love, nothing is harder than love, nothing wants or asks more from us. Love gives us everything that's good in us.”
“Is the definition of a pessimist a person who only sees what he hasn't got but wants? Would an optimist never see the empty space? Or is there some other detail I'm leaving out? Is it more complicated? I don't know. It isn't always bad to see the empty space, is it? Isn't it all right to see both, the filled space and the empty space? You could be in either. I have to try and see everything.”
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