244 Quotes by Karl Kristian Flores

The classroom is so rare. It’s one of the few times a group of different people have to be in the same room. Outside, it’s only strangers in subway rides for a few minutes. Or waiting in line for food or being in some doctor’s office. When I take the bus, everyone’s so tense. They don’t talk to each other. But to come in a room Monday to Friday, to know which people are shy, who volunteers to read, who cheats, and to laugh... There’s rarely a congregation like that.

It isn’t real, none of it is, but it’s bearable. Isn’t it pathetic the only way some can tolerate existence is by faking one? The effort to entertain is a happy one. It’s the need to do it that’s so damn sad.

These are icebreakers. You’re not supposed to break the ice, you’re just supposed to coat your voice with as many layers of confidence as possible so that they don’t hear your voice shake when it’s your turn to speak. Idiot.

I have a bunch of moles on my body,' said Phoebe. 'They make me look disgusting. My closet’s literally filled with the most spectacular turtleneck collection you’ve ever seen.

If I ask you to dance, you'll know I've been waitingSo instead, I will whistle in the cold under my umbrella,Carrying a tune that I know you'd be hating,Killing what I want the most in case it won't want me.

A kiss is more than a kiss.If you have my lips, you have my thoughts,My presence, questions, lessons I was taught.That in my closed-eyed kisses with you, Contained all my art, my lonely, my childhood too.A kiss, I fear, is more than a kiss.

Curiosity has and will always conquer fear.

Dried leaves that stomp on other dried leaves--This is man.Snails pretending to have tortoise shells-- This is man.We're so good, aren't we, at saying we're not cold-- Assuring others even as we shiver and turn blue.But I know you're lying, you might as well fold, Because I'm pretending to be pink while shivering, too.

A beating heart takes a heart's beating.