Ashley > Ashley's Quotes

“You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.”
― Emilie Autumn

“You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“I'm not stupid. I know exactly what's going on, and I'm not fighting it. If I have to go through this, I will glean from it any small benefit I can receive. I will not fight this. Bring it on. Bring on the cure. Bring on the fucking happy. I'm committed.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“And falling's just another way to fly.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.”
― Emilie Autumn

“And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“Once upon a time is now.”
― Emilie Autumn

“I can explain myself: If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street. I’m not joking. You’ve been told to look both ways before crossing the street, and the sidewalk is your friend, right? Wrong. I’ve spent years walking sidewalks at night. I’ve looked around me when it was dark, when there were men following me, creeping out of alleyways, attempting to goad me into speaking to them and shouting obscenities at me when I wouldn’t, and I suddenly realised that the only place left to go was the middle of street. But why would I risk it? Because the odds are in my favour. In the States, someone is killed in a car accident on average every 12.5 minutes, while someone is raped on average every 2.5 minutes. Even when factoring in that, one, I am generously including ALL car-related accidents and not just those involving accidents, and two, that the vast majorities of rapes still go unreported […] And, thus, this is now the way I live my life: out in the open, in the middle of everything, because the middle of the street is actually the safest place to walk.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.”
― Emilie Autumn

“I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck the hole. Oh so smooth, and none sophistacted. Because, you know, how sophisticated can hole-fucking really be”
― Emilie Autumn

“I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.”
― Emilie Autumn

“If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!”
― Emilie Autumn

“I do not have OCD OCD OCD.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Hey, look at me! Look at me! Look at me! And...look at me. Will he think I'm sexy enough? Will he find me wholesome enough? Am I fuckable? Is he allergic to feathers?!”
― Emilie Autumn

“For this freedom
I have given all I had
For this darkness
I gave my light
For this wisdom
I have lost my innocence
Take my petals
And cover me with the night”
― Emilie Autumn

“EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla?

Audience: Yeah.

EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Thank you.

It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things.

I'm not allowed to have scissors any more.

It's still pretty lengthy, but I've been threatening to shave half of it for the past week and nobody seems to believe me...

I do it all myself though because I scream when I'm touched and that scares people.”
― Emilie Autumn

“History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“Your stockings prove your virtues.
Be certain they are clean and free of tears.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

“Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love...”
― Emilie Autumn

“We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru--- well, unavailable.”
― Emilie Autumn

“I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me”
― Emilie Autumn

“DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist?

EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave up over a year of my life and career helping Billy with his flop of an album and designing and building all of the costumes for his music video. With Courtney, we were friends, but I spent years working to record and promote her flop of an album only to find that my value increased every time I peed in an orange juice bottle so that she could fake her way through a drug test. Not exactly a haven for artistic growth.”
― Emilie Autumn