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Mostly Void, Partially Stars (Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, #1) Mostly Void, Partially Stars by Joseph Fink
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“We understand the lights. We understand the lights above the Arby’s. We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us: Wedon’tunderstand even more.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Time is like wax, dripping from a candle flame. In the moment, it is molten and falling, with the capability to transform into any shape. Then the moment passes, and the wax hits the tabletop, and solidifies into the shape it will always be. It becomes the past, a solid, single record of what happened, still holding in its wild curves and contours the potential of every shape it could have held.

It is impossible, no matter how blessed you are by luck or the government or some remote, invisible deity gently steering your life with hands made of moonlight and wind, it is impossible not to feel a little sad looking at that bit of wax, that bit of the past. It is impossible not to think of all the wild forms that wax now will never take....

... But then you remember, I remember, that we are even now in another bit of molten wax. We are in a moment and it is still falling, still volatile, and we will never be anywhere else. We will always be in that most dangerous, most exciting, most possible time of all: the now, where we never can know what shape the next moment will take.

Stay tune fore... well, let's just find out together, shall we?”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
tags: wtnv
“Some days the weather happens and we never look up or go outside and that’s okay too.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Silence is golden. Words are vibrations. Thoughts are magic.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
tags: wtnv
“We are not history yet. We are happening now. How miraculous is that?”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Don’t worry. Don’t worry. All is as it was meant to be. It was meant to be lonely and terrifying and unfair and fleeting. Don’t worry.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“But here is the truth of nostalgia: We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it for all the possibilities that were open to us but that we didn’t take.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Your existence is not impossible, but it’s also not very likely.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Wednesday has been canceled due to a scheduling error.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Valentine's Day is a disaster. Any day that is designed to perfectly encapsulate something as messy and personal as two people in a romantic relationship would have to be. But in Night Vale it also kills people. This is called satire.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Remember: If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“And night falls on you too. You have survived, survived everything up to this moment. Grip tight, hum, laugh, cry. Forget nothing and think many things of it.
Goodnight. Goodnight. Goodnight.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Everything is exciting, particularly existence. Existence is the most thrilling fact of all.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“I took a walk on the cool sand dunes, brittle grass overgrown, and above me, in the night sky, above me, I saw. Bitter taste of unripe peaches and a smell I could not place, nor could I escape. I remembered other times that I could not escape. I remembered other smells. The moon slunk like a wounded animal. The world spun like it had lost control. Concentrate only on breathing and let go of ideas you had about nutrition and alarm clocks. I took a walk on the cool sand dunes, brittle grass overgrown, and above me, in the night sky, above me, I saw.
This message brought to you by Coca-Cola.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Remember, this is America. Vote correctly or never see your loved ones again.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
tags: wtnv
“We all want to live forever, right? Wrong! Think about watching your family die as you selfishly carry on. Your children aging and passing, your grandchildren, and so on. Think of all of the friends you’ll make but eventually lose. You don’t want that! No! You know the earth is eventually going to be swallowed by the sun, right? And one day you would be present for this greatest of all apocalypses. As fascinating as this event would be, scientifically speaking, this excitement would fade as the pain of thousand-degree flames engulfed your tender body and your aged mind would be so alone in this interminable torture. Does this sound like something you want? We didn't think so.
Immortality is stupid. Think before you wish.
This message brought to you by DIRECTV.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“If you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun, and you will, coincidentally, die.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Today is the last day of your life up to this point.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“ONE DAY, YOU WILL DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE, AND THEN YOU WILL TELL NO ONE. AND THEN YOU WILL DIE.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Some mysteries aren’t questions to be answered but just a kind of opaque fact, a thing which exists to be not known.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Pain is just weakness leaving the body, and then being replaced by pain. Lots of pain.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Whoever you are now, you are home.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Weird at last. Weird at last. God Almighty, weird at last.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“There always seems to be something upsetting you. You should relax more. It’s not that there’ s nothing coming to get you, there’s everything coming to get you…but relax anyway, just on principle.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“Each day the sun rises and sets. The moon pulls the tides. Our hearts beat. Our loved ones love us back. And we share our inhales and exhales with the great organism that is our tiny planet.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“The Night Vale Medical Board has issued a new study indicating that you have a spider somewhere on your body at all times but especially now. The study said that further research would be needed to determine exactly where on your body this spider is and what its intentions are, only that it is definitely there and is statistically likely to be one of the really ugly ones.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“You know, they always say, “If you’re trying to meet someone, you may never find them. But it’s when you’re not looking, that’s when they find you.” I’ve always heard this in reference to government agents, but I think it applies to dating as well.”
Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

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