Quotes from work

The Gum Thief

“If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.”

“Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.”

“A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.”

“Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (…) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.”

“Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.”

“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)”

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”