Edmond Manning > Quotes

“Duck love is recognizable in any language.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“I think jalapeno sounds like a bunch of letters piling into a beat-up old word to get tacos.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“It's hard to categorize the half expressions, the ones which reside in between. But this morning, I'm calling Perry mad by sadwest.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“To boast wonder takes great courage. Being left speechless with joy is not for the weak. We forget to be surprised by everyday miracles, like toast springing up, the mesmerizing blue in the sky, or even simple friendships. To touch and remember this delicate sense of wonder, we travel. We deliberately let ourselves become tourists to welcome in this unique delight.”
― Edmond Manning

“Every corner of the sky awkwardly showed up wearing the exact same thing, a moody gray dress accessorized with flat clouds. If North, South, East, and West were drag queens, this would be bad, very bad.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“I love hotel soaps. For some reason, I always believe those little soaps will bring me luck. So far, they have only brought me soap.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“There should be a word for an attitude between snobbish and unconscious, describing someone who doesn't realize how strongly he holds his own opinions.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God.”
― Edmond Manning

“Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“I warned you about those sexually graphic descriptions. Now you’ve alienated our only breakfast friend, a homophobic Republican on crack.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“I wonder if Perry snores. I'm not going to ask; first dates can be so awkward.
Fuck it.
"Hey, do you snore? I hate to ask, because I know how awkward it is to bring up on the first date."
Perry spit-laughs a gob of drool.
"You're unbelievable."
"So, yes?"
"No, I do not snore."
"You look like a snorer.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Oh good lord, I'm in a three-way with a cello.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“I always love the moment someone begins a journey.”
― Edmond Manning

“Some men want to believe their kingship will make them stronger, more invulnerable to life's sorrows so that hurts do not hurt, pain is laughable. They are surprised to discover the paradox of strength - only the truly vulnerable possess the ability to love powerfully.”
― Edmond Manning, King Mai

“I wonder sometimes why we don't have more words to express forgiveness. The words we use are so trite, so limited. How do you describe that first melting of a friend's face after a vicious fight, the moment when you suddenly know that eventually, you will survive this.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“It's good to be a bear and not take yourself so damn seriously.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Perry does not love the cost of this adventure, but his investor brain is going to run the numbers. The brain always insists on being the last committee member to cave. The brain likes to make speeches that usually begin with a familiar opening:"Ladies and gentlemen, I have been wronged.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Breath, Perry. Let the air become you, and then leave you. Forgive each breath because although it abandons you, every single time, it is also brings you life. A man who cannot forgive the air has no chance of living. (Vin)”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“This is a disturbing fetish, Vin," he says, coming up for air. "Why can't you be into bondage like everyone else?”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Men often think submission indicates weakness, that letting someone else take charge betrays a character deficit. But we all submit to strangers who drill into our teeth as long as we can see the parchment on their wall which reads “Dentist.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“I think Joy sleeps in strange places. We're always looking for her in shiny, happy, fun times, assuming that Joy prefers her twin brother, Pleasure, when she often hangs out with her somewhat stoic big sister, Strength. Joy is not always easy to recognize, dirt-smudged and sweating, brambles in her hair. I want to believe she sometimes wears a ski mask.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Have you ever done anything so significantly outrageous, so beautiful and insane, that on days when your life feels dull, these shining moments leap out? Do you have an answer to the question 'Did I live? Did I touch the world?'" (Vin)”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Your first ducknapping is never easy.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“This is one of those California moments, and these two women now have their own dose of surrealism to share with their friends: the mostly naked, mountaintop cello player and his even more naked, duck holding friend. Everyone here grooves on those stories, where the line between locals and tourists blur, and for a moment we're all Californians because we share the same love.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Besides, I am too intense for most people. I am someone who is better in smaller doses.”
― Edmond Manning, King Mai

“The sun seems fascinated to get closer to this paradise landscape, and keeps dropping half inch by half inch in the west. Tenderly he flies to his lover, the Ocean, who twists in delight with his imminent arrival. "Patience, my love," the Sun whispers in long golden rays. "Soon I am yours.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“Some men shy from the morning kiss, worried their breath isn't fresh enough. Fuck that. We can kiss minty-cleat later. I'd rather have the morning kiss, the one that smells of heat and last night's blurry sleep, yesterday's dirt and drama.”
― Edmond Manning, King Mai

“It's good to be a king, lost of found.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry

“It's good to be a king, lost or found.”
― Edmond Manning, King Perry