Erika T. Wurth > Quotes

“God, I had hope a minute ago, but now I feel so empty (...) I wish I could cry, but I can't, I'm broken that way. Just fucking broken, like a clock on the wall. Stopped in time.”
― Erika T. Wurth, White Horse

“I am healed. But I don't realize that healing requires scars, and I am still rough beneath them, I still have pain locked behind that ropy skin. And there is weakness there, there is vulnerability, a thing I have always been terrified of. A thing that has festered. A thing that can take me down into the dark. And feed. And feed.”
― Erika T. Wurth, White Horse

“Behind me, I could hear the lip ring kid whisper, “God, your ass is hot.” I turned around and looked him dead in the eye. “This ass will cut you if you don’t shut the fuck up.” He closed his eyes and bit his lip. I thought I heard a short moan escape. Jesus Christ.”
― Erika T. Wurth, White Horse

“This life, all of it, led to madness.”
― Erika T. Wurth, You Who Enter Here

“What was it with married people, especially ones with kids? They always thought they had it harder than everyone else, and they always thought that having kids meant they were doing something heroic.”
― Erika T. Wurth, White Horse

“I thought of my mother, her life taken by a man who, if not a literal beast nonetheless, someone shaped by the shape of someone else's pain, who only knew to take that pain and try to give it to someone else, thinking it would take the pain away from himself.”
― Erika T. Wurth, White Horse

“To the nerds who fell in love with dragons and demons, with portals and alternate worlds—and who felt that in order to grow up, they had to put those things aside. And who came back.”
― Erika T. Wurth, White Horse