john haiko

“Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can't hurt them, or with no one at all.”
― Alexander Maksik, You Deserve Nothing

“As I walked home, there was the familiar crush of isolation, that bodily loneliness that swept through me every winter. It was as if I'd been injected with something cold and vicious. I could feel it spreading through me, falling heavy in the center of my chest, pooling there. It was bitter and it was devastating and it frightened me.”
― Alexander Maksik, You Deserve Nothing

“Now I sat at the small table in my apartment. There was the hum of the room. The sound of the blade cutting through the chicken. The sound of wine in my throat. Returning the glass to the table. I tried to be perfectly still. I held my breath and imagined myself alone in Paris. In a room in a city holding my breath.”
― Alexander Maksik

“I would fight for him and against anyone who wouldn't. It wasn't complicated. In the beginning love never is.”
― Alexander Maksik, You Deserve Nothing