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the bullet was near her heart: a pinknewspaper
199 pages, Paperback
Published January 23, 2025
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November 16, 2025
Just some of my favorite quotes, a beautiful read
"The sky was like crystal, someone could have cut a hole in it and went ice-fishing" (page 6)
"To wrap your arms around an old friend who saw the traces of a dead snake living in your head" (page 13)
"If I'm not around her soon I'll go animal-mad I'll start mooing - I'll start crowing - if she isn't standing before me soon lovely like strawberry air I'll go rob a bank or try and take over a small country" "octoberghosts; like when someone turns sixty and they tell you nothing's changed but someone else is in the mirror" (page 17)
"Never could make heads or tails of the fella myself. He said it was his job to be lonesome and that he was good at it. He said there were castles in the air. I didn't ever say much when he was saying these things. It's a good thing to listen to someone dream" (page 24)
"Often to watch others be real people together, speaking and being music and not knowing they are music. And I watched from a distance; often being at a distance. Often eager to know if the music in the distance is also something I have a part in. Often wanting an invitation" (page 33).
"My friend the photographer - don't you want to get any sleep? Don't you want to meet somebody? No one ever meets anybody with an imagination like yours; you can't sit still; you're not in one place long enough - I know it; I can tell - even when I see you sitting in a chair I can tell you're ten different places in your mind and seven in your heart" (page 49)
"I heard the music - did you hear the music? It was overhead and better than me... We'll get up at dawn as if something matters to us; and I guess something does" (page 51)
"You go one way and I'll go the other, and maybe someday we'll get the chance to see it happen all over again" (page 53)
"I felt I was actually paying attention and understanding in life for a change" (page 60)
"I say to myself this is not summer love - this can't be July it must be October for I've got the colors but everything's dyin"
"My friend Bill. He's always talking about how sometimes he looks at himself from above, from beyond the earth, and thinks to himself 'I like Bill... I'm rooting for him' and I thought about that and I thought, I like Leonard- that's my name - Leonard - with all his dead-ends- you know, he wants ice cream when the ice cream shop's closed and he wants to read a book when the book shops closed, and you know, maybe he lets himself be lonelier than he needs to be, but with all of his dead-ends, I like Leonard - and it's good getting to be so close to him that I am him - for a certain amount of time" (page 61)
"Most of my brother is music did you know that. No words. Music. He's music. He is music and I believe in him. He is my brother" (page 63-64)
"Dearest Delilah, Let me be nobody for a little while, it's easier for me that way. Suddenly I'm here and you're there" (page 67)
"I was in love and this is how I remember it. Someone sees who you really are and not only stays around it but wants more of it - and this stuns you, at least it stunned me. What's more is you see who they really are and you're willing to trade everything in the world for it. Who they are, even things they don't know or see about themselves, it is to you a music high; so high that it is a bullet near the heart; because it does hurt" (page 77)
"But don't you wish you were drunk and full of laughter and in love - why don't you just go - get a change of scenery - go someplace where the music of the stranger is playing" (page 87)
"I don't feel well to tell you the truth. I'm lonely as heck and I can't get used to the room I'm sleeping in. Too many thoughts. Too many creaks underfoot on the floor of my mind" (page 97)
"I don't like this tired and awake feeling. Will you love me a long time? I don't like when I haven't slept. Do you think I'll die before you stop loving me? I wouldn't mind if you stopped loving me as long as I died before it happened" (page 107)
"I know I'll find the right music in your eyes if I look long enough" (page 116)
"Kissing sure is something, huh? You really can't let anybody know that you think kissing sure is something. But kissing sure is something and everybody knows that" (page 131)
"Rejection is just trying. It's not even failing. It's just being alive" (page 147).
"Some people are only ever sorry and you and I could not be further away from such people" (page 160)
"I'd have a drink with you and we'd talk and we'd laugh together and afterwards you'd say to me, or maybe not to me but in your head, "I spoke what I never speak" (page 162)
"...You know - I'm here for music, and, I've been everywhere for music - everywhere I've gone, I mean everywhere I've been - I was there for music..." (page 169)
"I feel as if nothing ever happens to me the way music happens to me" (page 170)
"I will sweep the halls of the earth until I find what I am looking for. Maybe over here, maybe over there; the best things are always covered in dust. Go walk. Go walk in the city. Go be alone for awhile in a different way. Go discover something, a new question perhaps. Ask yourself how is it a person could wander on and on, looking for something that they already have, or, how someone could be in such a rush, they couldn't walk fast enough or drive fast enough, and they don't even know where they're going, or where they want to go, or where they want to be" (page 175)
"Save the last dance for me at the end of the world, when my darling the harvest comes on" (page 176).
"The sky was like crystal, someone could have cut a hole in it and went ice-fishing" (page 6)
"To wrap your arms around an old friend who saw the traces of a dead snake living in your head" (page 13)
"If I'm not around her soon I'll go animal-mad I'll start mooing - I'll start crowing - if she isn't standing before me soon lovely like strawberry air I'll go rob a bank or try and take over a small country" "octoberghosts; like when someone turns sixty and they tell you nothing's changed but someone else is in the mirror" (page 17)
"Never could make heads or tails of the fella myself. He said it was his job to be lonesome and that he was good at it. He said there were castles in the air. I didn't ever say much when he was saying these things. It's a good thing to listen to someone dream" (page 24)
"Often to watch others be real people together, speaking and being music and not knowing they are music. And I watched from a distance; often being at a distance. Often eager to know if the music in the distance is also something I have a part in. Often wanting an invitation" (page 33).
"My friend the photographer - don't you want to get any sleep? Don't you want to meet somebody? No one ever meets anybody with an imagination like yours; you can't sit still; you're not in one place long enough - I know it; I can tell - even when I see you sitting in a chair I can tell you're ten different places in your mind and seven in your heart" (page 49)
"I heard the music - did you hear the music? It was overhead and better than me... We'll get up at dawn as if something matters to us; and I guess something does" (page 51)
"You go one way and I'll go the other, and maybe someday we'll get the chance to see it happen all over again" (page 53)
"I felt I was actually paying attention and understanding in life for a change" (page 60)
"I say to myself this is not summer love - this can't be July it must be October for I've got the colors but everything's dyin"
"My friend Bill. He's always talking about how sometimes he looks at himself from above, from beyond the earth, and thinks to himself 'I like Bill... I'm rooting for him' and I thought about that and I thought, I like Leonard- that's my name - Leonard - with all his dead-ends- you know, he wants ice cream when the ice cream shop's closed and he wants to read a book when the book shops closed, and you know, maybe he lets himself be lonelier than he needs to be, but with all of his dead-ends, I like Leonard - and it's good getting to be so close to him that I am him - for a certain amount of time" (page 61)
"Most of my brother is music did you know that. No words. Music. He's music. He is music and I believe in him. He is my brother" (page 63-64)
"Dearest Delilah, Let me be nobody for a little while, it's easier for me that way. Suddenly I'm here and you're there" (page 67)
"I was in love and this is how I remember it. Someone sees who you really are and not only stays around it but wants more of it - and this stuns you, at least it stunned me. What's more is you see who they really are and you're willing to trade everything in the world for it. Who they are, even things they don't know or see about themselves, it is to you a music high; so high that it is a bullet near the heart; because it does hurt" (page 77)
"But don't you wish you were drunk and full of laughter and in love - why don't you just go - get a change of scenery - go someplace where the music of the stranger is playing" (page 87)
"I don't feel well to tell you the truth. I'm lonely as heck and I can't get used to the room I'm sleeping in. Too many thoughts. Too many creaks underfoot on the floor of my mind" (page 97)
"I don't like this tired and awake feeling. Will you love me a long time? I don't like when I haven't slept. Do you think I'll die before you stop loving me? I wouldn't mind if you stopped loving me as long as I died before it happened" (page 107)
"I know I'll find the right music in your eyes if I look long enough" (page 116)
"Kissing sure is something, huh? You really can't let anybody know that you think kissing sure is something. But kissing sure is something and everybody knows that" (page 131)
"Rejection is just trying. It's not even failing. It's just being alive" (page 147).
"Some people are only ever sorry and you and I could not be further away from such people" (page 160)
"I'd have a drink with you and we'd talk and we'd laugh together and afterwards you'd say to me, or maybe not to me but in your head, "I spoke what I never speak" (page 162)
"...You know - I'm here for music, and, I've been everywhere for music - everywhere I've gone, I mean everywhere I've been - I was there for music..." (page 169)
"I feel as if nothing ever happens to me the way music happens to me" (page 170)
"I will sweep the halls of the earth until I find what I am looking for. Maybe over here, maybe over there; the best things are always covered in dust. Go walk. Go walk in the city. Go be alone for awhile in a different way. Go discover something, a new question perhaps. Ask yourself how is it a person could wander on and on, looking for something that they already have, or, how someone could be in such a rush, they couldn't walk fast enough or drive fast enough, and they don't even know where they're going, or where they want to go, or where they want to be" (page 175)
"Save the last dance for me at the end of the world, when my darling the harvest comes on" (page 176).
July 18, 2025
4.5 stars.
Very good and very sad. I love words. This is lowkey the first modern-day poetry book that doesn’t piss me off.
Very good and very sad. I love words. This is lowkey the first modern-day poetry book that doesn’t piss me off.
February 2, 2025
"No one can do nothing matters like I can do it, because I love you. I'll go to the grave loving you. I'll make love to others loving you. I'll sit alone and angry loving you. And I could be wrong but while I'm wrong I'll be loving you. What a miserable music it is I adore loving you"
January 31, 2025
Pinknewspaper #forever
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