“Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.” — Joe Meno Heaven Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.” — joe meno Answers Copy Share Image
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well. — Joe Meno Life Copy Share Image
The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave. — Joe Meno Be brave Copy Share Image
“Maybe. Because he’s got to try. Because she is too interesting, too beautiful not to even do anything.” — Joe Meno Interesting Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’m special. I want you to know that,” Odile says sharply. “I don’t think I’m better than everybody else.” — Joe Meno Think Better Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths. — Joe Meno Death Copy Share Image
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. — Joe Meno Cities Copy Share Image
“As a boy, all I ever wanted was this: a life dedicated to art; every idea, every breath an artistic gesture. And… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels… — Joe Meno Book Copy Share Image
“I figured Alan wasn’t really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid,… — Joe Meno Kept Hoping Copy Share Image
“wondered about what he said and then thought hard. I could never be a dick, not to Gretchen anyway, so I guess… — Joe Meno Doomed Copy Share Image
“This man has the same kind of charm, the kind that suggests weakness, the kind that indicates how sad he will always… — Joe Meno Charm Copy Share Image
Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a… — Joe Meno Alright Copy Share Image
“It will happen soon. Someday you will find yourself surrounded by people with the exact same interests as you, and you will… — Joe Meno College Copy Share Image
“Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too… — Joe Meno Death Copy Share Image
Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in… — Joe Meno Country Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Able Copy Share Image
The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes.… — Joe Meno Boys Copy Share Image
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made… — Joe Meno Abandoned Copy Share Image
I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and… — Joe Meno Apologizing Copy Share Image
“We did something very simple," Effie says. "Yes, and what was that?" Effie Mumford stares off the porch into the night sky.… — Joe Meno Night sky Copy Share Image
“You scan the cheering bleachers for the strange boy’s face: handsome, reserved, with the eye patch, a little dramatic, a little scary.… — Joe Meno Boy Face Copy Share Image
After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people… — Joe Meno After school Copy Share Image
“In our town—our town of shadows, our town of mystery—it seems our buildings have, without reason, begun to disappear completely. Still full… — Joe Meno Coming home Copy Share Image
“His face almost looked the way it did when he was a teenager, when there was the subtle expression of both confidence… — Joe Meno Confidence Copy Share Image
“The more you like a girl, the less she likes you. It’s like fucking scientific.” “What about you and Kim?” “That’s what… — Joe Meno Time Copy Share Image
“-Are you ready to return to the outside world, Billy? -No, definitely not, sir. -Well, you can't stay here forever now, can… — Joe Meno Outside world Copy Share Image
“Attention, God the Judge, God the Father, who Art in Heaven, give me one miracle, please. If You exist as I know… — Joe Meno Art Copy Share Image
“An apple could make you laugh: You are so charming. On our lunch, we find our way along the crowded boulevard. You… — Joe Meno Love Apples Copy Share Image
“Apples are kissing other apples. Gray cats are kissing other gray cats. Trees are kissing trees. You and I are not kissing.… — Joe Meno Good and bad Copy Share Image
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer. — Joe Meno Cry Copy Share Image
“For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about… — Joe Meno Heart Copy Share Image
