Woke Up in a Strange Place
Eric Arvin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Lou reluctantly drew back, still holding Joe, and placed his soft lips on Joe's own. Existence reacted to their reunion. Immediately, it was as if two halves became whole once again. The sky flashed colors overhead as they stood together: day to night, night to day. They stood motionless and kissing for so long a period that they might have been mistaken for part of the landscape, as vines climbed up their legs and grass grew around them; as dirt gathered and buried even more the scattered fragments of the abbey. Only the keepers of time knew that lifetimes did indeed pass, possibly entire eras. And yet it was but a scant moment to Joe and Lou. All of it but a simple, longed-for embrace neither time nor death could contain.”
“Gay angels are all the rage in heaven.”
“Oh wouldn't that twist your twat if that turned out to be true!”
“You gotta know it before you move on. You gotta recognize yourself. Understand the lessons. If you cain’t make no sense of it, well then, what use was it?”
“There are lost souls here too. They just wander and stumble about, sad and incomplete. They look real tired all the time. But most of us find our way okay. Then, when we know our way well enough, we can help others out. Others who don’t know their way so well. Some lost ones maybe. But the truth is, we never stop discovering new things. There’s always more.”
“You grow the most, you see, when there are boundaries, when there are things to climb over.”
“What the hell is this?” Baker mumbled, swatting at a sentence as if it were a pesky bee or a mosquito. The letters scattered from the disturbance but kept climbing all the same. A capital O got caught on his ring finger, and he shook it loose frantically.”
“Well, human beings have always done one thing very well, and that is create their own hells and bask in their own misery. They complain about what they create for themselves; they relish the pain. What they don't do so well most of the time is find a way out of it.”
“They’re only being punished by themselves. There ain’t no higher power doin’ it. Not like you’re thinking. As I said, there ain’t no hell. You keep makin’ me repeat myself, boy. There ain’t no heaven, God, devil—none of it. Only the mind makes it so. ’S’a powerful thing, the mind. We can create somethin’ outta nothin’.” He paused. “Are we done with today’s sermon?”
“They took the snide grimaces and foul remarks of the day, the shoves in the hallway or laughs on the playground, and turned them into monsters and giant squids they could just as easily vanquish to darkened caves under the earth. They made the bullies’ scoffs destructible things.”
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Book Keywords:
joe, misery, true-love, human, lou, hell, humor, pain
