Henry Hoke > Quotes

“I feel more like a person than ever because
I'm starting to hate myself”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I’m old because I’m not dead”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I say something

it sounds like words

it's not what they want to hear”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“if you feel alone in the world

find someone to worship you”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I have so much language in my brain

and nowhere to put it”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“she sees the dead man and she sees that I made him that way and her fists clench and she shudders like an earthquake

we meet for the first time

hello little slaughter

this is what a goddess looks like”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“it's okay

old is fine

I'm old because I"m not dead”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I watch their hands as they walk away

hands that could be grabbing bottles and throwing but instead are wrapped together and connected”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“my mother was very kind

her bloodthirst was insatiable

she taught me how to snap a neck with my jaws

why would I ever leave her”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“a father to a kitten is an absence

a grown cat to a father is a threat”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I can't fix this

I have no idea what it's like to be a person and to be confronted with a me”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“the stillness now is not the stillness before”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I try to understand people but they make it hard”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I wonder if I'd been brave enough and tried to cross first

would he have found my body

or if we'd crossed together would we both have made it”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“any sec I could step off a cliff

I think I've always felt this way

the smoke makes it clear”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I think of all the nights we'll spend together

this man and his guts and me”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“this is too much

the shudder inside becomes unbearable

I can't eat everything I'm afraid of”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“what they see makes them point or stop and turn and put their hands on their hips and breathe deep but the distance they love is an out of focus blur when I try to look where they're looking

all I can see is what's right in front of me”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“she makes a circle of sparkling stones around my sofa and kneels and feeds me from her outstretched palm and calls me her goddess

if you feel alone in the world

find someone to worship you”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I'm not sure what a scare city mentality is

but I have it”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“more lights than I could ever count stretch out into the darkness and they don't stop stretching

I'm scared of how far they go”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“my eyes

I like to think the man who ran will remember my eyes

always”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“small and sick and afraid three of my favorite flavors”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I'm the same color as my thicket and the same color as the ground

no one sees me unless I want them to”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“this may be their town but we all live in scare city”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I stare at the trees because the trees don't talk”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“with my last breath I think the word
please

let me start over”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I'm not sure how to have a body again after losing it and my desire goes in all directions

slow and starved and wanting to connect

fuck”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“a photographer flashes picture after picture and everyone who comes up and stands with us smiles because they know that the photos mean even after they leave they'll still be here”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“slow and starved and wanting to connect”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat