Bennett Madison Quotes

“Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.”

— Bennett Madison

“We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.”

— Bennett Madison

“The world rushes through us. We are peaceful. We are as deep and black as space. Staring up at the stars, we see only our own image reflected back at us.
We are infinite and we are ravenous.”

— Bennett Madison

“Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.”

— Bennett Madison

“We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.”

— Bennett Madison

Say there's this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you've been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it's almost as if you don't want to change. Because you'll miss the person you were before.

— Bennett Madison

“The minute you think you're safe is the same minute you're fucked.”

— Bennett Madison

“She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.”

— Bennett Madison

“I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark”

— Bennett Madison

“When is nothing special the most important thing? When it's the only thing. Where we come from, beauty is so ordinary that we don't even know we are beautiful.”

— Bennett Madison

“Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it.”

— Bennett Madison

“And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.”

— Bennett Madison

“The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.”

— Bennett Madison