A Quote Menu
Written By Jake Muskovitz
“Because Survival is Insufficient”
“I do not wish to know, I prefer to remain unenlightened to better appreciate the dark.”
Fiction
"Never laugh at live dragons."
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
"Her eyes were full of marginal beasts"
Gregory Maguire - Wicked
"Silence the music to improve the tune, stop the fake smiles and howl at the moon."
Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
"They would not believe me. If by chance they did, what would happen then? Some expedition out of Leningrad would catch her. There would be a harvest of mermaids. They would be put to production. No. She was as wild as the giraffes were once wild. Let her swim free."
J.M. Ledgard - Giraffes
"Some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don't lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place."
N.K. Jemisin - The Stone Sky
"As a rule, I ignore half of everything he tells me... call it a healthy skepticism of any wisdom delivered through a mask."
Stuart Turton - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Rap
"Today is full of regret, find forever in tomorrow. Man up, what's the problem? Everything is Jazz and I'm Stockton"
Mac Miller - That's Life
"One million illegally downloaded my truth over the drums"
Kanye West - Saint Pablo
"Sometimes the truth don't rhyme."
Chance the Rapper
"And after all my logic and my theory, I add a motherf***er so you ignant n****s hear me."
Ms. Lauryn Hill - How Many Mics
"The good news is, n**** you came a long way, The bad news is, n**** you went the wrong way."
J. Cole - Love Yourz
Rock
"Deal me up another future from some brand new deck of cards"
Bob Seger - Till It Shines
"I want to sail away to a distant shore and live like an apeman"
The Kinks - Apeman
"Have you been drinking son? You don't look old enough to me. I'm sorry officer is there an age you're supposed to be? Cause no one told me."
Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van
"Be what you're supposed to be, whatever that's supposed to mean. I just wanted you to know that you don't have to come clean to me."
Mt. Joy - Cardinal
"Sooner or later the story gets told, to tell it myself would be unbearably bold."
Vampire Weekend - Unbearably White
Country and Folk
"I could lie to you all night, say I saw you in a dream. We don't have to get to know each other better, let it be just how it seems. I won't ask you for your number, don't even need to know your name. I'm too tired to get excited and I'm too old to be ashamed. We're running out of options. I'll give you time to think. If you insist on being lonely, let me leave you to your drink."
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If You Insist
"There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes. Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose."
John Prine - Sam Stone
"He was sweet and soft, shied away from the inside fastballs and died doing life without parole."
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Cast Iron Skillet
Movies or TV
"Don't let the wisdom of age be wasted on you."
Ted Lasso
"The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it."
Andor