Lee Matthew Goldberg > Quotes

“I watched him spread out his arms with a smile before he crashed through the table in a beautiful crescendo, the glass sounding like tinkles from a piano as its shavings glittered across the floor and sliced through his face and body.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“The music grew louder, faster, as we saw an empty couch on the balcony and ran to get it, pushed aside another couple darting for the same thing, but it was ours, and we smiled wide, laughing at our fortune, our couch.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“Everything is so fast and awful, isn't it, Noah?"

"The world has become like that.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“Hollywood is bigger down right now by sequels, by the uninspired. Well, my M.O. is a two-hour feast for your senses. That means starting the concept of filmmaking from scratch, making it your own.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“As I’ve learned from life, happiness sometimes only greets us in fits and starts. For tragedy often follows merriment. Without strife, we would not know the true meaning of gaiety. That’s what I like to tell myself to ease the pain.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“The heater spits a chorus of steam, his bones no longer brittle and cold. The ice man melted, a new form waiting to emerge once all the crystals get shaken away.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“Under the lake by Anvil Creek, a man has been frozen much like another man in the same wilderness had been frozen, in this area of Alaska where silence is the loudest sound.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“There should be multiple yous," Grayson says, outlined by the moonlight, a blue phantasm. "So you can help solve all of our problems. So you can help solve the world's problems.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“His eyes swelling with tears, the alien salt stinging. Not tears of sadness, this he decides. He won't let them be anything more than a body's way of letting go.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“People can drift far away from themselves but eventually tether again.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

“I don't make threats," she said. "I make reality.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“I screamed at them all to leave me alone, begged for their mercy, but they feasted until I was picked clean like a carrion would.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“I licked my lips where I could still taste their glove's fabric. Bitter leather and sweat. The taste of being alive.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“With the right combination of Long Island blue heavens swimming in my bloodstream, I could be perfection.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“The two stalkers who had finally found one another. Watching each other all night until we collapsed from exhaustion.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“I am being watched. My stalker is smart, just like I would be.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“I'd leave all my haters in my motherfucking dust.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“I hoofed it out of the alley, returned aboveground. Collided with people as I tore down the street, running fast as I could, chasing demons I would never catch.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“If that was the last time we met, I was satisfied with my parting words. But if that was the case, why was I crying on the way back to the train as if I'd experienced a death?”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“Any wish fulfilled...for the right price.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“The sun rose and fell and we remained stuck to her bedsheets and each other.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“While youth has its advantages, you are green to the ways of business.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“Darling it's all a crapshoot with Gable. Never know if you're rolling snake eyes.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“It was the first time I thought of the devil in relation to him. A quick flash of horns.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“I should've known that when you make a deal with the devil, he only takes and takes until there'd be nothing left but bones and dust.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“Honey, I'm Marilyn Fucking Monroe. And don't you forget it.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins

“Or if she rejected me again, then I could take pictures of her fucking in a horse costume and blackmail her into loving me like she should.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“On an unseasonably warm winter's morning, I took my first life.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins