Will Christopher Baer > Quotes

“And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“Multiple personalities. Don't freak out but I'm pretty sure I have them. Not a clinical thing, not a disease. But a distraction to be sure. There are maybe six or seven pretty concrete versions of myself knocking around in here and I mean it gets fucking crowded when everybody is drunk or talking at once.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Phineas Poe: Kiss Me, Judas / Penny Dreadful / Hell's Half Acre

“Disappear, she says. I love that word.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop. ”
― Will Christopher Baer

“Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?
I try to smile. What's the difference, really.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful

“I'm cold, Religiously cold.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Phineas Poe: Kiss Me, Judas / Penny Dreadful / Hell's Half Acre

“Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Hell's Half Acre

“All superheroes had pretty much the same problem. Batman was flash and sexy compared to Bruce Wayne and even Robin was a lot cooler than Dick Grayson. As for Superman, well. It was a fucking miracle that Clark Kent had never committed suicide.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful

“...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful

“Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Phineas Poe: Kiss Me, Judas / Penny Dreadful / Hell's Half Acre

“I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful

“Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas”
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“Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful

“I'm going to kill Jude this afternoon for fun, then eat my own putrid kidney for dinner.”
― Will Christopher Baer

“I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. It's a appropriate, I think. And still I feel worthless. I want to comfort her, to chase her fears into the snow. But sympathy is buried in me, like a stone in the belly of a goat. And the goat is the rare animal that will eat garbage. I hold her hand until she falls asleep, then steal fifty dollars from her purse.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Hell's Half Acre

“He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“Arms and legs thrashing. The hammer of blood.
I’m coming, says Jude.
And holds her breath. Orgasm is brief, nonviolent.
What color? I say
Devastating blue, she says. The pale blue eyes of a murdered boy.
Very nice.
You remembered, she says.
Jude comes in colors. How could I forget. Trembling blond orgasms that seem to piss her off and rare pink orgasms that never end. Chemical red orgasms that fill her with guilt and perfect orgasms black as fresh earth. Orgasms shadowy and gray that may or may not cause her to weep and orgasms the color of bruised skin, orgasms that fade from purple to yellow and remain visible for days.”
― Will Christopher Baer

“The years tumble past you like bits of paper on the street and you may not even feel the breeze at your back but then something catches your eye, a twist of black hair or a dog leaping to catch a tennis ball. The splintered chorus of a stupid pop song. You turn around and another chunk of your life drifts by like unrecognized trash and it was never yours to begin with.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Hell's Half Acre

“It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“my life comes apart like a love letter in the rain.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“...because there is nothing so arousing as fear and submission and the threat of violence.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“Everybody’s dying, she said. Just pick a disease.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Penny Dreadful

“I stare at Isabel without blinking. I stare until I can see the pale roots of her natural hair and the expensive skin cream that changed her skin from milk to olive and the colored lenses that gave her yellow eyes and I wonder how she changed her breasts and ass and shortened her legs. I stare at her until her eyes are pointed and her teeth glitter like fangs and I have to close my eyes. If she said her name was Lucy and she faked her death I would believe her.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“My face is still marked with Henry's blood and I bend over this boy as if I'm taking a drink from a fountain in the park. I brush his nearly dead lips and they are dry as the back of my hand. His tongue barely touches mine and pulls away like a thief and oh Lucy if you had only asked me for this.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

“They diagnosed me with borderline personality. I'm paranoid and antisocial and I have an unusual indifference to violence. They said I don't believe the rest of the world is real and consequently I don't trust anyone and I don't mind hurting people and what else is new? I used to be a cop. That shit is normal. It's perfectly normal.”
― Will Christopher Baer

“The urge to flee is a high-pitched whistle and I stare into a black cavity of space that stinks of urine and dead flowers. Of rotting oranges and leather and spray paint. I crawl into the space and find a corner. I stare into the shadows and I see several corpselike figures, coiled in burlap sacks around me. Sleeping drunks with the faces of dogs, of horses. I blink and they’re not there.”
― Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas