26 quotes found
“How many lovers did a person need, anyway?”
“You cant let the apocalypse rule your life.”
“You cant get lost if you have nowhere to be.”
“You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.”
“You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be.”
“Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.”
“Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.”
“I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess w...”
“She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.”
“I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body.”
“Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of ...”
“and give me insults, give meeconomic discrimination, give methe darkened parking lot of a windowless queer bar, give me fleets of bigots and books bannedin libraries across america, feed the worldw...”
“Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.”
“It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers.”
“She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.”
“I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.”
“Michelle felt that if people didnt like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.”
“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”
“i was really into communal living and we were all /such free spirits, crossing the country we were /nomads and artists and no one ever stopped / to think about how the one working class housemate /...”
“Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could...”
“Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.”
“She didnt know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didnt know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore ...”
“It is so hard for a queer person to become an adult. Deprived of the markers of life's passage, they lolled about in a neverland dreamworld. They didn't get married. They didn't have children. They...”
