Chad Taylor > Quotes

“Babe had lots of looks but gradually she got stuck in the sixties, with hairspray and long dresses and fingernails and eyeliner. She became a more intense version of women who demonstrate whiteware products on television, taller with longer, darker hair and tighter wool suits and pointier shoes. I didn’t have any money to buy clothes then. It was the first time I’d admitted it to anyone. Babe felt sorry for me and took me out shoplifting.”
― Chad Taylor, Pack of Lies

“The city was the perfect place, it was... Heaven. And when I got here people said: who are you? But I thought they were asking where so I said, Heaven.’

Melrose sucks his pen. ‘And that became your name.’

‘It’s not my name. It’s just what people call me.”
― Chad Taylor, Heaven

“You gamble, you believe in luck. Like if you're swimming, you believe in water. Right?”
― Chad Taylor, Heaven