Mark Matthews > Quotes

“Simba, You Are More Than What You Have Become”
― Mark Matthews, Chasing the Dragon: Running to Get High

“Horror is just the volume of life turned up so high the reality breaks through the confines of normal everyday limits and explodes in a bloody mess.”
― Mark Matthews, Garden of Fiends: Tales of Addiction Horror

“A Social Worker develops programs to help feed the poor,” she had said, “and makes sure there’s a chicken in every pot.  A Counselor asks them how they feel about getting the chicken.  And a Therapist diagnoses and treats them when they start hearing voices from the chicken telling them to cut their wrists.”
― Mark Matthews, Stray

“Find what you love and let it kill you,” I quoted Bukowski.”
― Mark Matthews, Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror

“What I really wanted to know is if it hurt them to poke me—if they imagined it when they punctured my skin again and again, or if they forget what it’s like.”
― Mark Matthews, Milk-Blood

“Eventually their flight instincts kicked in and they turned around to flee, but the door had already closed, maybe sometime during the abduction of their friend, maybe it’d always been closed, maybe they’d been here in this apartment their entire lives, maybe there wasn’t a world outside these walls, shit, any of it seemed just as unlikely as it seemed likely.”
― Mark Matthews, Garden of Fiends: Tales of Addiction Horror

“The idea of life being so terrifying, depressing, debilitating that it becomes unbearable is one of the greatest terrors. Lack of meaning, lack of hope. To want to die.”
― Mark Matthews, Let Me Out I've Had Enough

“audience watching, one who would never reveal themselves, but who follow your life’s drama. It helped with the loneliness.”
― Mark Matthews, All Smoke Rises: Milk-Blood Redux