Top 300 Joseph Fink Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “For her part, Diane did not have a good reason for why she wouldn’t tell Josh anything about his father. She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in the moment, and justified it to herself later, and in this way she was no different than anyone else she knew.”

— Joseph Fink

202. “D-Day is short for Dog Day, which happened during World War II, when we defeated the Germans by not letting them come over to pet our dogs anymore.”

— Joseph Fink

203. “She said if good-hearted families travel to Night Vale only to find their subconsciouses besieged with unforgettable revelations, horrors buried so deep as to be completely indescribable, revealing wholly unbearable new truths, then we certainly can’t expect these people to return, let alone leave good Yelp ratings for local businesses.”

— Joseph Fink

204. “Troy does not get to be your father simply because he participated in your creation. Troy does not get to earn your love as a son because you are biologically his. I have done the work. I have put in the time. I have loved you. Troy does not get to be my equal in your life because he has not earned it. I need to protect myself. And I need to protect you.”

— Joseph Fink

205. “The drive was difficult, because at this point it seemed that everyone in town but the two of us had hopped onto the buzzing shadow entity train, and were loping around town as malevolent holes in our reality, emanating an energy that made the hairs on your arm stand and your bowels vibrate. Or maybe that was just the chemistry with Carlos I was feeling.”

— Joseph Fink

206. “You believe in mountains, right? Not everyone does.”

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207. “There are moments in life in which it is made clear to us how vastly we have misunderstood.”

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208. “Jackie felt repulsed by Steve. She had no idea why. He had never been anything other than kind of her, kind to everybody. As they old saying went: ‘Not all windowless vans have residential surveillance equipment.’ In other words, not everything can be as good as it seems.”

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209. “It’s a kind of assault, this constant insistence that we can’t be publicly acknowledged. Sometimes an act as simple as a person recognizing you, your bulk, the tangibility of your skin. That can mean everything.”

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210. “Then she would drive to the pawnshop, dig up the doors from where they were hidden, and replace them unlocked at the front just in time for opening time, which was the moment her gut told her the shop should be open. She would sit there all day, doing what she did and no more than what she did, and then she would stop doing that and go home. There wasn’t much else to it, life. A person’s life is only what they do.”

— Joseph Fink

211. “The mail was junk: a couple of furniture catalogs, a credit card offer, a dead mouse, and a flyer with coupons for 50 percent off the moon. The faceless old woman who secretly lives in her home had censored the credit card offer, using charcoal to blot out entire lines and amounts. Diane looked through the coupons, considering what a great deal it would be if anyone actually wanted the moon. It’s a hideous rock, Diane thought. You couldn’t pay me to take it.”

— Joseph Fink

212. “Saying a moment is awkward has never made an awkward moment better, but it’s a tactic that humans keep trying over and over.”

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213. “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

214. “KEVIN: We know that there has been some tension. Certain events that everyone regrets, although some regret them more than others. But we also know that nothing removes tension between rivals towns quite like a picnic, a smile, and a song. Sing louder. Louder. Good.”

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215. “It’s not easy raising a child in Night Vale. Things go strange often. There are literal monsters here. Most towns don’t have literal monsters, I think, but we do.”

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216. “No,′ she shouted. She shouted it over and over because she didn’t know what she could do to change anything and at least shouting made her feel better. No one could hear except the house and the faceless old woman who secretly lives in it.”

— Joseph Fink

217. “History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.”

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218. “Distance is confusing,” the stranger would tell people, anyone who would listen. “So is time.”

— Joseph Fink

219. “He’ll be what he’ll be. And we’ll all learn to be okay with whatever that is.”

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220. “Jackie’s eyes burned. She wasn’t sure if it was an allergic reaction. She couldn’t remember ever feeling this sensation. She touched the corner of her eye. It was wet. There was water coming from her eyes and trickling down her cheeks, and she knew she was crying but she wasn’t sure if she had ever cried before.”

— Joseph Fink

221. “When nothing else works, eating sure does.”

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222. “She didn’t even notice right away that Evan was not at work. Same with Dawn. But as days passed, their absence overtook the mundane humdrum of office talk. Some thought Evan and Dawn had run off together. Diane was not comfortable enough with her co-workers to shame them for their gossiping.”

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223. “In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance.”

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224. “Sorry, listeners. I need to go make sure she’s all right. I take you now to the sound of a human stomach digesting, heavily amplified and electronically distorted.”

— Joseph Fink

225. “Finally, most identity thefts occur when databases are not securely managed. So, my advice? Don’t ever end up in a database.”

— Joseph Fink

226. “Then you will die, but only for a little while.”

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227. “Her body no longer felt young. All of her energy had been robbed from her. She felt old, looked young, was neither.”

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228. “The study found widespread dissatisfaction with our town’s public library, and, when considering the facts, it’s easy to see why. The public computers for Internet use are outdated and slow. The lending period of fourteen days is not nearly long enough to read lengthier books, given the busy schedule of all our lives. The fatality rate is also well above the national average for public libraries.”

— Joseph Fink

229. “It will be difficult to help if you create a Culture of No, Diane.”

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230. “You still need to work on a lot of things,” Diane did not say. “I’m sorry your father isn’t here,” she also did not say. “But I am trying so, so hard. I am, Josh. I am, I am, I am,” she did not say. As far as things go, her self-control was pretty good.”

— Joseph Fink

231. “Jackie’s good arm was out the window, the sandy air tickling her skin with hundreds of inconsequential stings, a tangible Morse code saying something meaningless. Jackie.”

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232. “They are asking that everyone dress up as the decline of the printed word in a society reverting to a state of brainless animality.”

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233. “Diane, in Jackie’s mind, looked just like a woman who would be an active PTA mom, with her kind face and comfortable clothing. She also thought Diane looked like a woman who would be a loan officer, with her conservative makeup choices and serious demeanor. She would look like a pharmacist if she ever were to wear the standard white coat, gas mask, and hip waders.”

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234. “If you like a thing, and only one place in town serves that thing, you’re going to be pretty excited by that thing, regardless of quality.”

— Joseph Fink

235. “The man in the tan jacket?′ Josie’s voice took on a new tone, one filled with interest and perhaps panic. Erika was back. Both of the Erikas. They sat on either side of Josie on the couch. Their faces were similar to the ones that a human uses to express fear. No, not fear. Concern. They looked concerned.”

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236. “Most people in Night Vale get by with a cobbled-together framework of lies and assumptions and conspiracy theories.”

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237. “After nonfiction was science fiction. No one knows why science fiction is kept separately form the rest of the nonfiction. Tradition is a powerful thing. These shelves were much less censored than the main nonfiction section, since science fiction tended to be about day-to-day stuff that everyone already knew.”

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238. “The mission of Night Vale has always been to make the mundane terrifying and the terrifying mundane.”

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239. “She drove home and grabbed the things she would need to check out a book: strong rope and a grappling hook, a compass, a flare gun, matches and a can of hair spray, a sharpened wooden spear, and, of course, her library card.”

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240. “Another way to remember someone is to create more memories with that person. The more there is to forget, the longer forgetting takes.”

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241. “Settling in to be another clear night and pretty evening here in Night Vale. I hope all of you out there have someone to sleep through it with. Or, at least, good memories of when you did.”

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242. “She looked old, felt young, was neither.”

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243. “As we all know, the spine ridges of adult cats are highly poisonous. If you are coming to see a kitten that you have adopted, it is important that you check for the location and severity of the spine ridge before attempting any petting. Also, keep your hands away from their mouths. A few of them have developed their venom sacks. We lost two cat adopters already this month, so... let’s just be careful people.”

— Joseph Fink

244. “Nowhere, the tarantula felt nothing at all.”

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245. “We will investigate at some point in the future, when we feel like we are maybe more interested than we are now. Until then, we will continue on in ignorance, happy as we ever were.”

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246. “Jamillah was still holding the power drill. She liked to always carry it, just in case she found herself in a situation where it would be useful. And when you always carry a power drill, almost every situation seems like a situation in which a drill would be useful.”

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247. “The reading area was a beautifully crafted trap set by the librarians, but it was too perfect. Even the dumbest book lover – and anyone who would regularly choose to come in contact with books could not be a bright bulb, Jackie thought – wouldn’t fall for this.”

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248. “They kept moving past the racks of the Night Vale Daily Journal by the windows. Due to spiraling printing costs and the necessary layoff of nearly its entire staff, the Journal had long ago moved to an imagination-based format. The racks were empty except for a small note reminding you that if you imagined what a hypothetical Night Vale newspaper might look like, then you needed to send a check for $19.95 to the Daily Journal to cover your monthly Imagination Subscription.”

— Joseph Fink

249. “Inside she would be a vessel of fluids and mourning.”

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250. “I don’t know who I am and I don’t understand the progression of time as it relates to me,” said Jackie. Leann nodded. “We’ve all been there.”

— Joseph Fink