200 Quotes by A.S. King

But who’s to say what’s stupid and what’s not stupid when your life falls apart? Some people fall apart over TV shows. Some people fall apart over a breakup. Some people fall apart over someone eating the last bowl of Apple Jacks. I fell apart because of the annual art show. No one noticed I was falling apart before then. I.

This is where the runaway train started down the track. I was inside the dining car enjoying a plate of cookies or something. I didn’t feel it then. But the train had been boarded on Saturday night when we drank the bat. And this was the beginning of its journey. Right here.

Marla yells when she talks on it – as if she still hasn’t figured out that a phone without a cord is not a lesser phone.

Then they fake smile at each other, but I’m starting to understand that smiling is really just another way of baring one’s teeth.

I remember asking everyone else in my life for forgiveness, but I realize I never asked myself.

I learned in English class about surrealists. It was the first time I wanted to throw myself up so I could be marked present. Surrealism turns the whole world upside down.

I mean, accidents are usually fast, right? Can’t say the last four hundred years counts as fast. Can you?

The absence of violence is not love.

I wish I could talk to twenty-three-year-old Sarah again. Ten-year-old Sarah doesn’t understand my struggle. She hasn’t come to this yet. She hasn’t come to the place where my present means nothing but my future is all everyone talks about. Twenty-three-year-old.