Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim Quotes

“These were his kind of people: hedonists. Honest and unafraid to surrender to who they truly were.”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“No good could come from a nicotine induced introspection save for the prospect of an early death, something he was not entirely opposed to. In fact, the ambivalence he held for such definitive states, alive and dead, even surprised him. Life wasn’t all it was pumped up to be and death wouldn’t be as nice as people claimed it to be.”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“He felt the woman he devoted half of his life to slipping through his fingers: the pain lying in his desire for her, but the truth lying in his inability to love her. Sooner or later their sand castle built on beaches of make believe would crumble, washed away by the hungering tide of time and all he could do was watch it vanish, watching her fade out to sea.”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“I want to be known, adored, admired, worshiped even. I want to matter. I want a love strong enough to kill me.”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“The only difference between us is that I don’t pretend to be a saint. I’m a sinner, and a damn good one”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“...ever since he was young there grew a sense that he did not belong. Somehow, he was not like the others, somehow, he spent his days somewhere else, outside space and outside time, to avoid those around him. Not because he wanted to, he was quite innocent then, but because he was forced to the outside of the circle: ostracized, an outcast. Now even in his older years it haunted him still. He wasn’t like the other students at the university.”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“He wondered when the world would stop punishing him for being himself. Would it ever? The academic hierarchy looked upon him with disdain and distrust, they tossed him around several ways hoping to fix him but it only made him worse, more defiant, more confident in his disobedience.”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“...he would be returning to a world that would treat him all the same. More potential, but more loss. The university...worked to subvert him, his closest friend would turn on him. It was certain. Everything he cared about would vanish or warp into something hellbent on destroying him. The world sent its message loud and clear: he did not belong.”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“I’m sorry no one in this world could love you the way you deserved...I’m sorry I wasn’t better”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim

“He would ruminate on the woman for the rest of the night, though he knew nothing about her. Was that love? Was that attraction? Infatuation? Love was not meant to be understood; it was meant to be yielded to.”
― Larry Fort, Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim