31 Quotes by Jordan Weisman

We are all animals. We're born them and we break like them and that's the truth at the bottom of things. We think we're special because we have produced Rambrant and Pop-tarts and infomercials, but death is our real common heritage.

They say love warms the soul, but it burns it sometimes, too.

Forget the names because names lie but remember me because when you look at me I remember myself.Remember me because I will never forget you.

Licking the powder off my fingertips I decided that bravery was overrated. Sometimes sugar is just as good.

Cathy, you burn like a candle in the dark." Victor titled up my face with his fingers. "All your life, people are going to see that, even from far away, even in the middle of the night, and they are going to come to you." He touched my damp cheek, still wet with tears. I could feel my skin flushing against his fingers, "They are going to want to add your light to theirs," he said "And every night ends, and then it's morning, and the sun comes up.

Maybe you think a lot about the past, when you haven't got much future in front of you.

I thought about what an intensely human act it was to get a tattoo, taking an image or a slogan, some stray momentary emotion, and cutting it into your body so that it could never heal and never be erased.

It was just past midnight and I was trudging through the St. Louis Greyhound station, a grim building obviously brought to you by the people who design high school bathrooms.

In that intense stillness, the old man laughed. "You have a good eye," he said. "Someone taught you to see.