K.I. Hope > Quotes

“Her heart became a bird, trapped inside the glass box of her chest, flapping violently into wall after invisible wall, crumpling into a heap of broken hollow-bones on the transparent floor.”
― K.I. Hope, hector

“I'm not dumb enough to be cool.”
― K.I. Hope

“It hurts, so much, to love. To love people only to watch them suffer.”
― K.I. Hope

“That is the nature of the obscene: a truth so honest it must be guarded, for it holds a revelation of purity that is deadly to mankind.”
― K.I. Hope, This is Not a Flophouse

“I wish I could walk in the fields before I die. Pasture, you know? That endless expanse of nothing and everything all rolled into one. That’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted, that’s all I wanted, all this time – nothing but pasture forever.”
― K.I. Hope, hector

“It's easier to believe in nothing than it is to believe in anything.”
― K.I. Hope

“You know, you fucked me for years without ever touching me.”
― K.I. Hope

“I'm not trying to find and attain some sense of righteousness in my lifestyle. I'm just trying to live right.”
― K.I. Hope

“I believe in you, and your choices, and that most often and like mine, they will be wrong.”
― K.I. Hope

“Folks is what they are and they ain’t how they’re not.”
― K.I. Hope, This is Not a Flophouse

“There were things hiding inside of her I wasn’t equipped to see and this collapse ripped her open to me. I searched her cavities for symbols that would betray her true nature, but found nothing I could read, just a vast absence containing her poverty of morals. I should’ve known, the need for my presence in her life was never love, only a sluice of goodness she would let flood the gulley of her body when she needed to appear human.”
― K.I. Hope, We Are Making the World a Better Place

“Every dream dies, even the American ones.”
― K.I. Hope, This is Not a Flophouse

“The moon! It smiled at her with all its might, she could see it! through the broken wood beams of a crude ceiling, nearly touch its cratered surface, stroke its circumference; oh, moon! bulbous and benevolent, guiding herds across planes on forlorn journeys; elucidating wisps of mist to lovers at midnight; absent to her for years but treasured still.”
― K.I. Hope, hector

“And your actual job isn't to educate the public; it's to stroke the collective clit of our consciousness until we all become so cum-numb to the world that we just chase the high and can't see the lows we're all wallowing in.”
― K.I. Hope, This is Not a Flophouse

“I wake up and look at that bridge, try to count the red taillights I see heading east every morning, a kind of rosary as I pray for another crisis to dwarf the one defining us right now.”
― K.I. Hope, We Are Making the World a Better Place

“I am so fragile
I am the pane of glass between your elbow and an axe”
― K.I. Hope