Andrew Joseph White Quotes

“But while you’re here, officer, why don’t you hold this railroad spike for me? Hold it in your hand and tell me how heavy it is. Tell me which one of us you’d use it on.
See what happens if you try.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

“I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to keep me safe. There is no joy in that. Only fear.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“He doesn't have to be my first. He doesn't count. Not if I don't want it to. And I don't want it to.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“Am I in love with her already? Perhaps. Or maybe I'm just confusing love with comfort, and I'm okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be? There are a lot of different kinds of love, and though I may not be able to tell them apart from each other, I appreciate all of them the same.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“I don't want to take her apart in the way most men would want to disassemble a woman. Not for any sort of power or hunger. I want to be close, and I don't know how to be close unless I'm elbow-deep in innards.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“What else was I to do except what I was told? I never learned how to do anything else.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“As soon as you were born with a womb, you were fucked.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth