J.T. LeRoy > Quotes

“I remember when I saw Peter Pan when I was little. After all the other kids wanted to reenact the battles of the lost boys, pirates, and Indians, and all I could think about was the part where Peter Pan sits still while Wendy takes a sharp needle and, with concern and maybe love, sews his shadow onto his feet. And I wonder if the pain excited him as much as it excited me to watch. I hang here, the voices still bleeding in my ears. I watch my shadow, solid like a murdered body's outline, and I pray. Maybe one more slice, just one more, will sever it forever.”
― J.T. LeRoy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

“She’ll be OK,’ I say to the man behind me. ‘You sure?’ he asks, and I hear him take another step back. It’s always easy to convince people it’s OK because if it isn’t, they’d have to get involved. ‘Yeah.”
― J.T. LeRoy, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Stories

“The large tips they were to hand to Le Loup in gratitude for Pooh’s newfound aptitudes were quickly placed on the collection plate—with an extra fifty dollars or so along with an attached prayer that they too might have the blessing of being able to haul overloaded rigs right through weigh stations with nary a blink from an inspector. Pooh would nudge and then slap at her dates to try to bring them around to their original mission. But they ignored her and muttered their praises to me, the new patron saint of truckers.”
― J.T. LeRoy, Sarah