Thursday, June 14, 2018

Favorite Quotes: June 2018

Okay, this is mostly a Night Vale greatest hits compilation. I read Mostly Void, Partially Stars this past month. It's a transcript of the first couple years of Night Vale podcasts. And it's the BESSST! Hereyago:


“We understand the lights. We understand the lights above the Arby’s. We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us: We don’t understand even more.”

“What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? I don’t know, but I trapped it in my bedroom. Send help.”

“If you love someone, set them free. Set them free now. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.”

“Lost? Confused? Lacking direction? Need to find a purpose in your life?”

“Fun game: Say "toy boat" over and over. Do it for the rest of your life. Retreat from society, and live on alms. Whisper, "toy boat," as you die.”

“If I said you had a beautiful body, would it even matter because we are so insignificant in this vast, incomprehensible universe?”

“There’s a special place in Hell. It’s really hip. Very exclusive.”

“Pain is just weakness leaving the body, and then being replaced by pain. Lots of pain.”

“Looking for a snack? Try wheat or a wheat by-product. Dinner? Wheat &/or its by-product. Trying to patch a leaky roof? We have just the thing for you, and we also have its by-product.”

“Your existence is not impossible, but it’s also not very likely.”

“You know, they always say, “If you’re trying to meet someone, you may never find them. But it’s when you’re not looking, that’s when they find you.” I’ve always heard this in reference to government agents, but I think it applies to dating as well.”

“Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness.”

“ONE DAY, YOU WILL DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE, AND THEN YOU WILL TELL NO ONE. AND THEN YOU WILL DIE.”

“Remember, this is America. Vote correctly or never see your loved ones again.”

“Some days the weather happens and we never look up or go outside and that’s okay too.”

“The Night Vale Medical Board has issued a new study indicating that you have a spider somewhere on your body at all times but especially now. The study said that further research would be needed to determine exactly where on your body this spider is and what its intentions are, only that it is definitely there and is statistically likely to be one of the really ugly ones.”

“The study found widespread dissatisfaction with our town's public library, and, when considering the facts, it's easy to see why. The public computers for Internet use are outdated and slow. The lending period of fourteen days is not nearly long enough to read lengthier books, given the busy schedule of all our lives. The fatality rate is also well above the national average for public libraries.”

The local chapter of the NRA has begun market-testing some possible new slogans. These include:
Guns don’t kill people, blood loss and organ damage does
Guns don’t kill people, people kill guns
A list of things that kill people:
1. Conceivably, anything
2. Not guns!
Guns don’t kill people, we are all immortal souls living temporarily in shelters of earth and meat
If you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun, and you will, coincidentally, die

“In light of the ever declining sales of newspapers and the rise of competition from digital media The Night Vale Daily Journal announced that it has developed a new business model.
Publishing Editor, Leanne Hart, speaking to television and internet reporters outside the burned down shell of the The Journal’s distribution plant, said their new mission, as a newspaper, is to kill news bloggers with hatchets.
In this bold new initiative, a game changing strategy by one of the industry’s stalwarts, The Daily Journal plans to just go to bloggers homes and places of employment, with hatchets, and then chop them up, the bloggers. Until they, the bloggers, are dead.
She added that The Journal still plans to use the AP Style Guide and they are working to design a newer, more modern-looking, masthead.
Several Journal reporters and ad reps then began swinging blades at the non-print reporters in attendance."

“The optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. It is only the truth seeker who wonders: Why is the glass there? Why is there water all over the floor? Why is it covering every other surface of the house? Who, or what, is doing this to us? WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE.”
-Welcome to Night Vale podcas

“I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.”
-Robert Browning

“I hate you.”
“I know.”
-Solo

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”
“That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”
-What’s Up, Doc?



-B.P. Kasik/Phony McFakename

* * *

My Phony books are on Amazon here and my "legitimate" books are on Amazon hereI exist on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram.

No comments:

Post a Comment