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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Really
Choose
Maybe
Anything
Enough

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I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.
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If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
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It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.
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Just... ate, M says, frowning at me a little. Two days...ago. I grab my stomach again. Feel empty. Feel... dead. He nods. Marr...iage.
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It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just... still alive.
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I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.
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My favorite songs change every year.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.
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A month ago there was nothing on Earth I missed, enjoyed, or longed for. I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of easy things.
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You might say that death has relaxed me.
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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
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Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.
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It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
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Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.
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I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.
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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.
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Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.
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