Yves Olade > Quotes

“You can have my heart if you have the stomach to take it. Kiss me hard enough to invert me.”
― Yves Olade

“You look like you’ve eaten the sun, like
you drank so much sunlight you’re drowning in it.”
― Yves Olade, Bloodsport

“All that matters is that you want me.
Say the word & I’ll burn for ten days.”
― Yves Olade, Bloodsport

“I fell onto love like a sword,”
― Yves Olade

“our mouths are wounds that speak in tongues of healing.
we say, sacrifice.
we mean, murder.
our lips are red for a reason.”
― Yves Olade, Bloodsport

“I know how your rage can light a thunderstorm or flood a town; so if there's ever blood on your hands again, I want it to be mine.”
― Yves Olade

“So I fell into the space between my body & the ground — a longing named gravity. A desire born impossibly hungry.”
― Yves Olade

“our mouths are wounds that speak in tongues of healing.
we say, sacrifice.
we mean, murder.
our lips arered for a reason.”
― Yves Olade, Bloodsport

“I called from the wrong side of a fire door to tell you that I might come home. static and silence. then you said, don’t.”
― Yves Olade

“O, how much kindness there is between the thought of violence & it’s fulfilment.”
― Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

“& in the end I carved my scream from my throat myself. violence always my first instinct”
― Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

“I imagine my heart a revolver warm as your chest beneath my hand & every chamber of it open & totally empty.

spin the cylinder of its atrium & watch how nothing comes out.”
― Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

“He cut the heart out of me all peach stone, & crushed me to pieces pomegranate.”
― Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

“Crack open the caverns of my heart and see: every chamber has a bullet inside it.”
― Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse

“Maybe I’m tired of rooms full of knives & still being the most dangerous thing around.”
― Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse