Quotes by J. Matthew Nespoli

I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; towering over me and reducing me into a small bundle of insignificance.

Music eliminates my gravity. When Im singing, Im a ravenous pterodactyl. Im alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; its weighing me down, making me prisoner to my loneliness and pain.-character Joanna (Broken)

Life is all about love. Everything — hate, lust, money, power, death, birth — it all stems from love. If life were put in a giant pot and boiled like a piece of chicken, all the fat would melt away, and what you’d be left with is love.

Hollywood-Nobodys impressed by anybody because theyre all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself hes a king.

People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothings changed. We still hate what we dont understand.

Nobodys truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasnt by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word free to a note so high nobody could attain it.

People cant change. Were pre-programmed robots going through the motions. Were the same at death as we are at birth.

White men are irresponsible with their power and money. Our beautiful earth is million of years old, and in a mere five hundred years, white people have nearly destroyed it. Another hundred years like the last hundred, and there wont be a living creature left on the planet.-character Amber Johnson (Broken)

Id just done the most important thing a person can ever do. Id made life. At the very instant he was put into my arms, I loved this new person more than anyone but a mother can understand.

Death didnt happen like I expected it to. There was no Grim Reaper, no chorus of angels, no army of demons. And my life didnt flash before my eyes. Death was the color of softness, a delicate green under a thin film of baby powder. There was nothing but soft random thoughts and picture, drifting through me like a childs breath blowing through a dandelion after making a wish. And as I died, I was held by my love. I wanted to soak up her love and smuggle it with me to wherever my soul was headed.-character Ron (Broken)

Old Age- You can tell when youre getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)

Typically, a psychiatrist can fool a patient by telling him the root of his problem can be fixed with this pill, that support group, and more psychiatry appointments. They dont tell the patient that the really fucked up people never get better. They mask their diseases by dousing them in heavy narcotics to numb their sickness, for years, until the peaceful eternal sleep comes and takes them away.

Unfortunately, loving someone doesnt obligate them to love you back

Part of me wanted to be like the other guys at school. I wanted to be simple. People who do less thinking tend to be happier... I wanted to be like the other guys because they were having more fun. But I couldnt be like them because I hated everything they stood for.