Zoe Trope Quotes

"I’ve got a heart and they can’t have it, but they give me a certificate in exchange and..."

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:31:49 -0500

“I’ve got a heart and they can’t have it, but they give me a certificate in exchange and I think I accept. I am a whore for attention and I spread my legs as wide as my mouth.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"Diversity Week is diverse if you are white, male, and straight. They lie to me all over my heart and..."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:56:29 -0500

“Diversity Week is diverse if you are white, male, and straight. They lie to me all over my heart and I yell in their faces. Spit lands on their giant glasses and they calmly wipe them clean with a white handkerchief. DO YOU THINK THIS IS OKAY? DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU’D GET AWAY WITH IT? They look at each other, shrug, and give me big smiles. Locker door slams shut fifteen times and I tape my hopeless heart to everything.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"My poor parents. The shit I put them through. It’s not fair, I suppose, but they’d be..."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:54:09 -0500

“My poor parents. The shit I put them through. It’s not fair, I suppose, but they’d be bored otherwise.
I am the reason I don’t want to have kids.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"There are only so many ways to rearrange twenty-six letters. You can put that into a formula. You..."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:52:00 -0500

“There are only so many ways to rearrange twenty-six letters. You can put that into a formula. You can make writing a science or math.
My words don’t connect and make sentences or thoughts. Maybe it’s the weather. The rain. The rain always leads to trouble.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"Paul Revere took off his tricorner hat and a boy kissed his forehead unsurprisingly he..."

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:49:00 -0500

“

Paul Revere

took off his tricorner hat

and a boy

kissed his forehead

unsurprisingly

he screamed

“the British are come—”

but his mouth was muffled with

fingertips

sometimes I can’t count all

the buttons on his coat

or the distance between

Lexington

and Concord

(guns are stored

in my stomach

and lungs)

they are trying to get inside me.

he is trying to warn them.

and I am trying to forget.

”

- Zoe Trope, (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"And sometimes, if I listen closely enough, I can’t hear anything at all."

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:34:18 -0400

“And sometimes, if I listen closely enough, I can’t hear anything at all.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"I’m sorry for all the really great lies I’ve told."

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:56:33 -0400

“I’m sorry for all the really great lies I’ve told.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"this is just a drill we are just playing pretend in case of fire in case of earthquake in case of..."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:59:00 -0400

“

this is just a drill
we are just playing pretend
in case of fire
in case of earthquake
in case of nuclear holocaust
crawl under your desk
cover your head
the security guards will check for compliance
go out to the parking lot
blast the radio
dance while you wait for
the world to end
when the bell sounds
when they wave you back in
shuffle your feet across the pavement
squeeze inside

this is just a drill
we are just playing pretend
sit down at your desk
this is just a drill
open your notebook
we’re just pretending
do problems #8-16
in case of fire
take out a sheet of paper
in case of earthquake
use a pencil
in case of nuclear holocaust
write your name at the top
crawl under your desk
crawl under your desk
wait for the world to end
wait
we’re just pretending.

”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"They yell and hug and celebrate the fact that they’ve grown up and they’ve done so much..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 21:12:39 -0400

“They yell and hug and celebrate the fact that they’ve grown up and they’ve done so much and it’s all been so hard and I watch very, very quietly. If I’m quiet enough, maybe I can slip away and I won’t have to do it too.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"I cried very, very hard today. Gasping, chocking sobs that I couldn’t talk through. My brother..."

Sun, 27 May 2012 11:29:38 -0400

“I cried very, very hard today. Gasping, chocking sobs that I couldn’t talk through. My brother asked me what was wrong, what happened. ‘I’m just sad,’ I told him.
I am not right. I am not right.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"I am trying not to drown. I am trying to bloom. Please don’t kill the flowers."

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:02:40 -0400

“I am trying not to drown. I am trying to bloom. Please don’t kill the flowers.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"…the evening is absolutely wonderful. The room is humid and quite moist, but the atmosphere is..."

Sun, 13 May 2012 22:31:42 -0400

“…the evening is absolutely wonderful. The room is humid and quite moist, but the atmosphere is perfect…I’d die in that room, if I had a choice.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"Techno Boy wouldn’t believe me, but I told him anyway. ‘I love you,’ I said. I..."

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:01:00 -0400

“Techno Boy wouldn’t believe me, but I told him anyway.
‘I love you,’ I said.
I love a lot of people. Sometimes I don’t really understand why I do because I need them or they need me or we need each other.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"I am scared of what will happen to me if I can’t start caring or doing something or feeling..."

Sat, 12 May 2012 08:36:10 -0400

“I am scared of what will happen to me if I can’t start caring or doing something or feeling something. I am scared because maybe feeling like this is my safety and when I move on from here I won’t know what to feel. I’ll feel okay for once and that will feel so wrong, I will collapse.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"I’m quite a few miles away, staring intently at the clock, wondering where he is and whose..."

Sat, 05 May 2012 21:50:41 -0400

“I’m quite a few miles away, staring intently at the clock, wondering where he is and whose hand he is holding and if he is playing with this thick silver rings.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"It’s so easy to be perfect. Just don’t do anything at all."

Sat, 05 May 2012 21:48:00 -0400

“It’s so easy to be perfect. Just don’t do anything at all.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"A lot of my dreams happen in airplanes.” “Why?” “I like to dream about..."

Sat, 05 May 2012 21:31:35 -0400

““A lot of my dreams happen in airplanes.”
“Why?”
“I like to dream about distance.””

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman, What Came After: A Post-Graduate Thesis)

"Dreams stick to you like a skin. When you hang out with someone in a dream, you think about them for..."

Sat, 05 May 2012 21:29:19 -0400

“Dreams stick to you like a skin. When you hang out with someone in a dream, you think about them for days as though you’ve already been with them and each moment and activity is just a replay of something already done. I kiss people in dreams and am later shocked to discover that they don’t remember our intimate moment, my sweet lips against theirs. We’re back to just being friends, being strangers.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman, What Came After: A Post-Graduate Thesis)

"…I’ll change it to make you, make them happy. Tell people what they want to hear instead..."

Sat, 05 May 2012 07:54:47 -0400

“…I’ll change it to make you, make them happy. Tell people what they want to hear instead of the truth. I know this lesson. I learned it just this year. I’ve lost so much of myself in the process so why do’t you just go ahead and take the last real piece of me and make that a lie too.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)

"Some days it’s really nice to forget who I am."

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:21:31 -0400

“Some days it’s really nice to forget who I am.”

- Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)