49 Quotes by Seth King

Humans appeared on a watery rock spinning around a ball of flames suspended in the middle of an endless ocean of nothing, and yet you still don’t believe in a miracle like love?

Nothing matters, so everything matters. You can find joy in the nothingness, and silence in the chaos.

The love you left behind is so much greater than the regrets your departure created. You were more than worth the trouble. I pray I was too.

They say that if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die. Summer’s name would never be carved in stone in monuments or tributes, but she had still carved her name onto my soul, and she deserved the same to be done to her legacy – but in a much larger sense. And so, with the windswept notion that I was hurtling toward destiny, I held my hands over my keyboard and preparedto etch my vanished girlfriend onto the storm-scraped surface of history – one keystroke at a time.

The casual kind of cruelty hurt the worst, as it usually rolled off the lips of the ones we loved most. Sometimes we let our loved ones pick and pick and pick at us until suddenly there was nothing left to save.

You know, we all have scars, Summer. If yours are only on the outside, you should consider yourself lucky.

After I watched Brokeback Mountain with my friend Katherine one time, she’d remarked that it “felt almost like a straight romance movie!” and I could remember wanting to shank her. The movie featured two humans falling in love – what else was it supposed to feel like?

They called death the great equalizer, and it was – because in the rearview mirror, everyone was a hero.

Are you my boyfriend?” I whispered, my voice like a little child’s. He was half-asleep, too, and I felt him kiss the back of my hand one last time. “I don’t know,” he mumbled. “But I do know you’re the only person I wanna be alive with.