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“Each day the sun rises and sets. The moon pulls the tides. Our hearts beat. Our loved ones love us back. And we share our inhales and exhales with the great organism that is our tiny planet.”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

“Stay tuned next for our countdown of last words, from “Stop telling me how to drive” all the way to “It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“The universe is unraveling. It still is. We won the day. We won the battle. We won whatever unit of measurement you care to say that we won. We returned to the dangerous equilibrium we had before, which we can only assume, or hope, or wish is better. But, of course, we did not stop the unraveling of the universe. The universe is not a thing that is, it is not a thing at all. It is the very action of its going. It is, in fact, its own dissolves and our lives – the entire span of human existence going back and back and, if we are lucky, forward and forward – the entire span is spent within this dissolve.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“If you could only see what you’re not seeing! If you could only take in all the complex layers of horrors that lie just beyond your range of sight. If you could only see the world as it really is. It is awful, and on fire…and beautiful.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“But how beautiful these moments within the dissolve! What a temporary perfection we can find within this passing world! Everything good ever done! Everything good that was done today, and all the good people doing it, and back and back and forward and forward, all of that beauty within a universe unraveling.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“Are we living a life that is safe from harm?

Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.”
― Welcome to Night Vale

“We are not history yet. We are happening now. How miraculous is that?”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

“Don’t worry. Don’t worry. All is as it was meant to be. It was meant to be lonely and terrifying and unfair and fleeting. Don’t worry.”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

“Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is: Are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“All the beauty in the world was made within the oppressive limitations of time and death and impermanence.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet it is. How unlikely! How fantastic!”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“May we all be human: beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.
And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: "Past performance is not a predictor of future results.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“We wake up. We move on. No state is our state forever. All is fleeting.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“Night Vale, my sweet and only Night Vale, may you find love. May you find it wherever it's been hidden. May you find who has been hiding it and extract revenge upon them.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“And night falls on you too. You have survived, survived everything up to this moment. Grip tight, hum, laugh, cry. Forget nothing and think many things of it.
Goodnight. Goodnight. Goodnight.”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

“Everything is exciting, particularly existence. Existence is the most thrilling fact of all.”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

“This episode isn't about spiders. Nor owls. It's about looking at something and thinking you understand what it is. It's about assuming the best of what you see only to find out quite suddenly that it is the worst.

This kind of misunderstanding has always been, to me, the most compelling kind of horror. The StrexPet here is that issue of Zoobooks.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“I know deeply that in my heart of hearts I love all beings. I am love. I am a good person.

I don't need anyone else to believe this for it to be true (anymore). I used to have to convince people I was a good human, but then I realised this is a total waste of energy since I can't actually control how others perceive me. And now I speak from love what is on my heart / mind.”
― Benjamin Brown

“You may not live through it. And if you do, the you that lived through it will not be the same you that lived before it. In that sense, you will definitely not exist after, and I’m sorry.”
― Old Woman Josie

“WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.

BUT HERE’S A LITTLE SECRET FOR YOU: NO ONE IS EVER THE SAME THING AGAIN AFTER ANYTHING. YOU ARE NEVER THE SAME TWICE, AND MUCH OF YOUR UNHAPPINESS COMES FROM TRYING TO PRETEND THAT YOU ARE. ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE DIFFERENT EACH DAY, AND DO SO JOYFULLY, RECOGNIZING IT FOR THE GIFT IT IS. WORK WITHIN THE DESIRES AND GOALS OF THE PERSON YOU ARE CURRENTLY, UNTIL YOU AREN’T THAT PERSON ANYMORE, AND EVERYTHING CHANGES ONCE AGAIN.”
― Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 75 - “Through the Narrow Place”

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

“I am made of magic.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“What's the point in fighting battles if you're bound to lose the war?”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“I haven't even had sex yet, and I'll be damned if I lose my virginity to her. To be honest, I doubt she's had sex either, but I doubt she's dying to lose it to me. No pun intended.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“So long as she lives forever, I'll always be home.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“I hug her again to keep my eyes from overflowing with tears. Everything in my life just feels so far away. I don't know how I got here, and I don't know where I'm going. All the things I thought were certain and forever aren't anymore. I wanna live in this moment until the end of time. I wish the good things didn't have to come with the bad.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams

“She's like a parasite on my entire life, feeding on everything good I have.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“She's probably planning on taking me out to a field and shooting me. Then she'll completely dismember me and ship my body parts off to my friends and family. When they take her to trial, she'll plead insanity and get away with it. Everyone will feel so bad for her, the poor sick girl who went crazy and killed her boyfriend. She'd end up a martyr somehow, and everyone would forget about it. Shit's messed up, man.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“It's like an orgasm in my mouth. Wait. That came out wrong.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks