Honeysuckle & Pain Quotes

“But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“Remember you future counselors and bringers of relief: there will never be a cure for life's problems because so many of tomorrow's problems will be new. Good words, like good work and good thinking, help, even if good words are a lot like highway paint. They can keep plenty of heavy things moving at 70 MPH from going the wrong way. But that doesn't mean life won't cross over if it has to. Learn to avoid the collisions. Find other directions. Often a new yes is the best no. Life lived well doesn't get easier but it does get better. Learn to let things go by. And don't be reluctant: life is al[l]ways surpassing us by. Enjoy it.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“You could not believe what one sigh articulates. What one laugh creates.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything.

We could build ourselves a heaven.

But why?

We were Heaven already.

Only in the very end did we try to build a S.O.U.L.

That which would outlast V.E.M., outlast The Verse, outlast death.

But it was impossible.

Or we were too late.

Though still the H.O.L.Y. tried.

And built Hell instead.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“We did not just go to the stars. We became the stars.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“Please forgive me for thinking faith means certainty.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“It is understood that the world does not want to be understood. The world would not be this world if it did.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“Mister Woder. Do Her Wed Door. Get ready. It's seizure time.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain

“HOW DARE YOU FUCKING TAKE MY TWELVE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER INTO A DEN OF FUCKING WOLVES WITHOUT MY FUCKING PERMISSION?! AND DRESS HER UP LIKE FUCKING LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Honeysuckle & Pain