C.J. Skuse > Quotes

“I only got to see three songs, Mac"
"That does not entitle you to take home the lead singer, Jody"
"I know"
"Most people settle for a T-shirt or a poster. Not Jody. Jody wants actual band members”
― C.J. Skuse, Rockoholic

“You can't just dream it, be it.”
― C.J. Skuse, Rockoholic

“Well, I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a rock star, wondering why I bothered.”
― C.J. Skuse, Rockoholic

“There's no point breaking your crayons over this, okay?”
― C.J. Skuse, Pretty Bad Things

“You have to play the system. They think you’re weak and girly? Act weak and girly. Use their own prejudices against them. Then when they’re not looking, cut their fucking throats.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“I don’t normally get drawn towards cheerful people – the urge to hurt them becomes too strong –”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“You’re only out of the woods when there are no more trees.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“It’s hard to find Happy, isn’t it? It lands only briefly before it flies off, like a butterfly.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“PLEASE CLOSE ALL DOORS QUIETLY, STAY HOME IF YOU ARE SICK, OR AT LEAST TRY TO DIMINISH YOUR SNEEZES – NOISE-SENSITIVE PSYCHOPATH IN THE BUILDING.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“Even when I’m at home, I’m acting a part. I never know which bits of me are real. I wonder what it’s like to truly feel, to truly ‘be.’ Exhausting, I’d imagine.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“I cleaned off my steak knife with my napkin. There was an abundance of veins in my left wrist. I could have ended it all right then if I had the balls.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.” Romeo and Juliet.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“Even when I’m at home, I’m acting a part. I never know which bits of me are real. I wonder what it’s like to truly feel, to truly ‘be.’ Exhausting, I’d imagine. It’s”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“It had a bend in it. I wasn’t sure whether he was pleased to see me or giving me directions to the bus station.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“I long ago decided she was just a pubic louse on the vaginal wall of the cunt witch from Hell.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“I wanted to murder the world. Nothing real was any good. And nothing living was worth living for.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“People will tell you anything if you listen to them for long enough and pretend you’re interested.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“I also had massive determination that my life would be better. That I would achieve something. It gives you a killer instinct I think, when you have a bad start.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“Isn’t it funny how people have to die before anyone lets them know what they mean to them? Well, not funny. Just stupid. I mean, they can’t hear you now, can they?”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“Did a BuzzFeed quiz this morning – How Psychopathic Are You? Turns out – very. I scored 82 per cent. They even accompanied my results with a picture of Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List. Don’t know how I feel about that.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“lose your mother is to be partially unanchored to the Earth. Like there had always been these ropes fixing me in place – Mum and Dad. When Mum went, one of the ropes snapped.”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom

“Erica’s rattling through a long list of contentments, which surprises me as she has a face that would make a blind child cry.”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom

“Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds and you choose what to plant there – good or bad.”
― C.J. Skuse, Dead Head

“she could go the other way round – but she does it to look at me. Like a killer going back to the site where she dumped a body, just to marvel at the rate of decomposition or to fuck the remains. I smiled back anyway, for the sake of The Act, and we had a short chat. I smiled again when we were done. Cue the hair swish. Cue the giggle. Cue me imagining her pinned to a snooker table and stabbing her in each hole.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“She’d already fucked the planet by birthing five kids so it didn’t actually matter how many times a day she swilled out her tampon.”
― C.J. Skuse, Dead Head

“As the great Bart Simpson himself once said, Nobody ever suspects the butterfly.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“Do you realise there was a moment when your mum or dad put you down as a child and never picked you up again?”
― C.J. Skuse, The Deviants: A YA Psychological Thriller with a Heart-Stopping Twist

“The horse pulling us was a brown Kerry Bog pony with mad hair and huge brown eyes and his name was Ben. Ben talked more than Fintan but using his arse.”
― C.J. Skuse, The Bad Seeds

“And while I’m on the subject of food shopping, how expensive are free-range chickens? Just gimme a hen that’s clucked, fucked and been plucked in woodland, and I’m happy. You don’t have to feed it diamonds or anything.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“to lose your mother is to be partially unanchored to the Earth. Like there had always been these ropes fixing me in place – Mum and Dad. When Mum went, one of the ropes snapped. When Dad went, I didn’t feel like I was anchored anywhere.”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom