That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can… — Isaac Marion Gone Copy Share Image
“There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it.” — Isaac Marion Feelings Copy Share Image
“What does it mean that my past is a fog but my present is brilliant, bursting with sound and color?” — Isaac Marion Past Copy Share Image
“Believe that God discarded you if you want to, fate or destiny or whatever, but at least know they loved you...” — Isaac Marion Believe Copy Share Image
“Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken” — Isaac Marion Desire Copy Share Image
We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering. — Isaac Marion Cheer Copy Share Image
I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way. — Isaac Marion Firsts Copy Share Image
“Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to… — Isaac Marion Artist Copy Share Image
“I run through the dark entry corridor toward the light on the other end, wondering if this is a birth canal or… — Isaac Marion Birth Copy Share Image
“There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world… — Isaac Marion Ideal world Copy Share Image
“I remember what love was like before There were complex emotional and biological factors at work. We had elaborate tests to pass,… — Isaac Marion Love Copy Share Image
“This is my greatest obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can… — Isaac Marion Adversity Copy Share Image
I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I… — Isaac Marion Collecting Copy Share Image
I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes. My friends have to keep reminding… — Isaac Marion Adapt Copy Share Image
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This… — Isaac Marion Barrier Copy Share Image
“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's… — Isaac Marion Apocalypse Copy Share Image
You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your… — Isaac Marion Brain Copy Share Image
There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's… — Isaac Marion Ideal world Copy Share Image
“Well we have to. We have to remember everything. If we don’t, by the time we grow up it’ll be gone forever.” — Isaac Marion Forever Copy Share Image
Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly,… — Isaac Marion Absurdity Copy Share Image
Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait. — Isaac Marion Bones Copy Share Image
“-Pero yo tenía que volver a casa, ¿recuerdas? Se suponía que ibas a decirme adiós. -No sé por qué... dijiste adiós. Yo… — Isaac Marion Amor Copy Share Image
Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? — Isaac Marion Echoes Copy Share Image
But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard… — Isaac Marion Bones Copy Share Image
“I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they… — Isaac Marion Grief Copy Share Image
My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips… — Isaac Marion Friendship Copy Share Image
“despite the millions of past moments I’ve lost or tossed away like highway trash, I know with a lockjawed certainty I’ll remember… — Isaac Marion Certainty Copy Share Image
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. — Isaac Marion Antipathy Copy Share Image
“Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.” — Isaac Marion Memories Copy Share Image
All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown… — Isaac Marion Killing yourself Copy Share Image
You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we… — Isaac Marion Changing the world Copy Share Image
I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud… — Isaac Marion Buried Copy Share Image
“Mälu vastand on lootus. Et need asjad, mis on läinud, saaksid ikka veel olulised olla. Et saaksime rajada minevikule tuleviku.” — Isaac Marion Mint Copy Share Image
“I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of… — Isaac Marion Easy things Copy Share Image
Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided… — Isaac Marion Arriving Copy Share Image
“Looks... supernatural, almost. Do they ever change color? Like when you kill people or something?" I try not to sigh. "I think...… — Isaac Marion Supernatural Copy Share Image
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my… — Isaac Marion Eloquent Copy Share Image
“Okay?” I ask, raising my eyebrows. She closes her eyes, takes a deep breath, cringes at the smell of my fluids, then… — Isaac Marion Nods Copy Share Image
Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days...ago." I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead." He nods.… — Isaac Marion Empty Copy Share Image
“I want a god to curse. I'll take any of them, all of them; I'll scream and blaspheme till lightning shuts me… — Isaac Marion Curse Copy Share Image