Waiting Quotes by Isaac Marion

8 Waiting quotes by Isaac Marion

Marion’s perspective on waiting is eerie, often a quiet prelude to dread. In this concise set, his moody tone hints at the tension that underlies his storytelling.

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I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes. My friends have to keep reminding…

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He is spent. His mind is mercury again, its brief surge of humanity melting into an oily residue on its surface, and…

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Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting?

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You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we…

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Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.

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I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave…

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There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's…

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“So when? You know things are moving. You’re changing, your fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What…

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“Good people see past their own fucking lives.”

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My favorite songs change every year.

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“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too…

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“She looks at her wrist, those thin scars like an entry stamp for some horrible concert. 'All the shitty stuff people do to themselves...…

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“I guess I talk a lot of shit about Perry, but it's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm…

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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

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I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys

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But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my…

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It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just... still alive.

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“I run through the dark entry corridor toward the light on the other end, wondering if this is a birth canal or the tunnel…

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“I want the pain of knowing them, and by extension myself: who and what I really am. Maybe with that scalpel, red-hot and sterilized…

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Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days...ago." I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead." He nods. "Marr...iage.

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It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.

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