Lena 04/08/2021
"A man dies, a man is born"
Quotes favoritas:
"If yer whole world is one Noisy town with no future, sometimes you just have to leave even if there ain?t nowhere else to go."
"Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all."
"So the thing to remember, the thing that?s most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain?t truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there?s a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don?t watch out."
"Praying Noise comes from inside, it?s got a special feel to it, a special purply sick feel like men are bleeding it out, even tho it?s always the same stuff but the purply blood just keeps on coming. Help us, save us, forgive us, help us, save us, forgive us, get us outta here, please, God, please, God, please, God, tho as far as I know no one?s never heard no Noise back from this God fella."
"Men?s minds are messy places and Noise is like the active, breathing face of that mess. It?s what?s true and what?s believed and what?s imagined and what?s fantasized and it says one thing and a completely opposite thing at the same time and even tho the truth is definitely in there, how can you tell what?s true and what?s not when yer getting everything? The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking."
"We don?t say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can?t say everything, so you don?t say nothing."
"But a knife ain?t just a thing, is it? It?s a choice, it?s something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don?t. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again."
"That?s the thing I?m learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don?t change it, it don?t get changed."
"The world?s a dangerous place when you don?t know enough."
?'History ain?t so important when yer just trying to survive'
'That?s actually when it?s most important.'"
"I?d rather not have no one else tell me what they?ll do for me, even when they mean well."
"There ain?t nothing good that don?t got real bad waiting to follow it."
"Maybe. But I doubt it. I ain?t what you call a lucky person."
"And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.?
?And somehow preaching became a movement and a movement became a war.?
"And then he smiles and it?s the smile that tells me it?s over."
"She hurts. I know all this. I know it?s true. Cuz I can read her. I can read her Noise even tho she ain?t got none. I know who she is. I know Viola Eade."
"But we run. Boy, do we run.
Cuz maybe (shut up)?
Just maybe (don?t think it)?
Maybe there really is hope at the end of the road."
"I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it?s dangerous, too, that it?s painful and risky, that it?s making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?"
"Everything that?s happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving. Someone."
?Hate is the key. Hate is the driver. Hate is the fire that purifies the soldier. The soldier must hate.?
"The boy with the soft heart, the boy who couldn?t kill. What would he kill for? Who would he protect??
?I think maybe everybody falls. I think maybe we all do. And I don?t think that?s the asking. I think the asking is whether we get back up again.?