I didn't completely like this book the first time I read it...
Selected passages from The Orphaned Anything's by Stephen Christian.
"i cannot remember a time in my life where i did not have to have a mutiny over my thoughts or memories just to fall into what some might call sleep, but i simply call it a momentary 'at-ease of mental clamor'."
"solitary seems so elegant to the outside. but for the forgotten our heavyhearted world doesn't call it solitude, we call it loneliness."
"religious books are so amazing, for instance once i bought an old copy of the talmud, the jewish holy book, just to read what the previous owner had underlined. i figured this guy has already read this whole thing and underlined the best scenes in the jewish people's history; therefore i cut all the slow parts, like the 1.344 chapter's of lineage's, and just hit the theatrical and action scenes. it doesn't get much better than fast food religion."
"sometimes i wonder if i am the only person who ever thinks in particular thoughts. does anyone else think like i do? i am sure there are, i wonder when original thought ceased? who was the last person to come up with a maiden thought?"
"dillusionary friends are still friends."
"if isolation is the furnace of transformation, i could be ashes by now."
"when did passion and desire become replaced with economic and financial wisdom as the chief character trait desired in a potential life companion?"
"so back to the plan. i love to people watch. i put on neo-classical music in my headphones, bands like 'sigur ros' or 'rachels,' and watch as the people around me make the opera/theatrical performance of a lifetime come alive. some call this 'people watching'; i rather call it 'real time interpretive dance.'"
"no ones home. my cable is turned off, failure to comply with the bills request. that means the internet is down too. i truly hate technology, not because of anything it did, but i've just realized i have grown so codependent; my social life, my erratic addiction which has stolen hours of my life looking for new and creative websites or bands. all for not."
"sometimes there is peace in chaos. a serene lullaby in disorder and the anarchy of life. one just has to listen."
"how can you say that, have you ever been to diminutive towns like st. joe, michigan? there is the most beautiful pier there."
"remember that life is good. regardless of circumstances, regardless of oppression or depression, regardless of what might happen tomorrow, or what happened last night, or what will happen tonight....life is good."
"i cannot remember a time in my life where i did not have to have a mutiny over my thoughts or memories just to fall into what some might call sleep, but i simply call it a momentary 'at-ease of mental clamor'."
"solitary seems so elegant to the outside. but for the forgotten our heavyhearted world doesn't call it solitude, we call it loneliness."
"religious books are so amazing, for instance once i bought an old copy of the talmud, the jewish holy book, just to read what the previous owner had underlined. i figured this guy has already read this whole thing and underlined the best scenes in the jewish people's history; therefore i cut all the slow parts, like the 1.344 chapter's of lineage's, and just hit the theatrical and action scenes. it doesn't get much better than fast food religion."
"sometimes i wonder if i am the only person who ever thinks in particular thoughts. does anyone else think like i do? i am sure there are, i wonder when original thought ceased? who was the last person to come up with a maiden thought?"
"dillusionary friends are still friends."
"if isolation is the furnace of transformation, i could be ashes by now."
"when did passion and desire become replaced with economic and financial wisdom as the chief character trait desired in a potential life companion?"
"so back to the plan. i love to people watch. i put on neo-classical music in my headphones, bands like 'sigur ros' or 'rachels,' and watch as the people around me make the opera/theatrical performance of a lifetime come alive. some call this 'people watching'; i rather call it 'real time interpretive dance.'"
"no ones home. my cable is turned off, failure to comply with the bills request. that means the internet is down too. i truly hate technology, not because of anything it did, but i've just realized i have grown so codependent; my social life, my erratic addiction which has stolen hours of my life looking for new and creative websites or bands. all for not."
"sometimes there is peace in chaos. a serene lullaby in disorder and the anarchy of life. one just has to listen."
"how can you say that, have you ever been to diminutive towns like st. joe, michigan? there is the most beautiful pier there."
"remember that life is good. regardless of circumstances, regardless of oppression or depression, regardless of what might happen tomorrow, or what happened last night, or what will happen tonight....life is good."