Jaxy Mono > Quotes

“This is why the oceans taste of salt. It is because of all the tears of mermaids for sailors who have died for their love. The oceans are salt with death and grief.”
― Jaxy Mono, The Book of Dubious Beasts

“It was the day without a yesterday, and the world was so new the paint was still wet on the flowers, the meadows were wrapped up in a glossy cellophane of dew, and freshly budded leaves dangled like shiny price-tags from the trees.”
― Jaxy Mono, The Book of Dubious Beasts

“But you alone are always only you,
endless, entire, unique; not blonde, nor dark,
nor black, nor white; but like the midday sun
all light, all colours hidden inside one.”
― Jaxy Mono, thirty-three

“Immortality doesn't last nearly as long as you think. Even our souls die in the end.”
― Jaxy Mono, The Book of Dubious Beasts

“Quit looking for an answer. You're rich, I'm beautiful, we're both intelligent. And your wedding ring, it itches. Isn't that enough?”
― Jaxy Mono, Rum & Coke

“See? I harvested your seed; I burnt your sperm. Now you can't help yourself. You're mine.”
― Jaxy Mono, Rum & Coke

“Now close your eyes; sleep with your sleep in mine.”
― Jaxy Mono, thirty-three

“Cuba is just a slave-prison. Our only crime is brith, but our sentence is life behind barbed wire and prison bars.”
― Jaxy Mono, Rum & Coke

“The point of living is it hurts dying”
― Jaxy Mono, Willy Whale

“Love's not my religion. I don't wait, I don't hope, and I don't believe. I'm free; I take.”
― Jaxy Mono, Rum & Coke

“Long ago, when the animals still ruled the earth, and talked, and rode horses instead of walked, a small Welsh dragon called Melvyn once lived all alone in a damp cave by the cold seashore.”
― Jaxy Mono, The Book of Dubious Beasts

“That's Vegas! A concrete and tire oasis
where barren sands bloom 'cause the buck is green,
and greed is good, and nothing's really bad
except to be too broke to pay your bill.”
― Jaxy Mono, thirty-three

“Well, this is us, Jack. Cuban cane rum and yanqui Coca-Cola; Cuba Libre, 'free Cuba'. Only we call this cocktail 'ha-ha' now, because there's no Cuba and no freedom. Salad!”
― Jaxy Mono, Rum & Coke

“Love" is just a kids' game. Adultery's the game we grown-ups play, and its only rule is, "Don't ever get caught having fun.”
― Jaxy Mono, The Book of Dubious Beasts