Chassis Albuquerque > Quotes

“So while Ronald Ford was the son of royalty and I was King of the Dreamers, we were both impecunious.
But, as you can tell, pretty well-read.
All of which still counted for shit when you no money.
Downtown, in a parking lot in the middle of the day whilst people shopped around with their kids amidst their arguments and new purchases, Ronald Ford had purchased a range of narcotics.
It had been that quick to get high.”
― Chassis Albuquerque, The Sundial Salesman

“As far as I could tell his problems with his wife were pretty typical, they’d run out of things to say to one another. And the things they did think up to say were pretty unkind and shit. Their life and marriage sounded as if it consisted of him gradually removing their most impressive moments and then rearranging them in a mutually one-sided fashion so that every moment with her was torture.”
― Chassis Albuquerque, The Sundial Salesman

“When I was leaving August Burgman looked at me, mystified.
"You could've asked for the world!" she said, which just proved, she'd no idea how the goddamn world worked or how much it would’ve cost.”
― Chassis Albuquerque, The Sundial Salesman

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”
― Chassis Albuquerque

“Downtown, in a parking lot in the middle of the day whilst people shopped around with their kids amidst their arguments and new purchases, Ronald Ford had purchased a range of narcotics.
It had been that quick to get high.
So while Ronald Ford was the son of royalty and I was King of the Dreamers we were both impecunious.
And, as you can tell, pretty well read.”
― Chassis Albuquerque

“A LIGHT RAIN fell across Tokyo. I looked out the window over the dull, grey landscape of TV aerials poking into the sky and out over the smoking, smouldering remains of the city in the distance looking much like an old, ugly industrial painting with its thick dirty, smudged colours.”
― Chassis Albuquerque, The Sundial Salesman

“I wouldn't say I hate my job and hate my life. But if I'd to choose it'd be a pretty fine line and so indiscernible I easily wander over the border between the two and back again without ever being fully aware of the transgression.”
― Chassis Albuquerque, The Sundial Salesman

“Even if she was only just 17, sometimes a woman can be so busy they forget to have a sense of humour and can't remember even how beautiful they used to feel and all that remains is the marching band smile of several serious but invisible injuries.”
― Chassis Albuquerque, The Sundial Salesman

“You're mother's a whore."
"She is," I’d agreed but my father, he'd mistook my conforming opinion as a question because he'd said: "She is, son, I'm sorry.”
I knew by the time I was 3 my mother was getting around. The only difference between a prostitute and my mother was my mother didn't usually charge.
Unusually.”
― Chassis Albuquerque

“Can anyone be arrested for being such an asshole as him? Should they pass a law, legislate for just such things, make it a criminal offense you could be detained for being such an asshole?
But then most of the world's men would be behind bars serving life term sentences, without parole.”
― Chassis Albuquerque, The Sundial Salesman

“I’ve had affairs before but never like this - I need a reason to leave my wife,” Shimansky said, desperately appealing to me.
“Won't you wife be annoyed?" I asked.
“Probably. No doubt. She usually is…” he said.
“That's very complicated. Even worse, what if your wife forgives you…? What then? You going to stay with her and keep doing the other one…?”
From: "The Sundial Salesman.”
― Chassis Albuquerque, The Sundial Salesman