Wayne Clark > Quotes

“Relationships weren’t ocean liners with stabilizers. They were flimsy affairs. No, they were more dangerous than canoes. They were kayaks, two-seaters that overturned with every careless comment, each intimation of indifference. You spend half the time upside down, under water. It takes a lot of skill to get right-side up before the relationship drowns.”
― Wayne Clark, He & She

“It was you who put the revolver on my bedside table. I just pulled the trigger.”
― Wayne Clark, He & She

“Souls had a way of talking. His wanted to shake him up, turn him upside down like a piggy bank to see if anything valuable dropped out.”
― Wayne Clark, He & She

“Then he became an adult, technically at least. And there were moments, danceable ones, but they came farther and farther apart. There were long stretches when life was almost flatlining. Only sex could fine tune the fibrillations of his heart. The pulse would return.”
― Wayne Clark, He & She