Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
Lynda Barry, Cruddy.
“It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me”
“Ask a burning question, get a burning answer”
“I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.”
“A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.”
“Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.”
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."..."But they used to take ...”
“Happiness is my drug of choice.”
“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ”
“If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not eve...”
“Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the m...”
“July 24, 6:03 A.M.The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff...Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for...”
“A book is a suicide postponed.”
“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?”