smmr

“There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called ‘Los Angeles’ and the words and images were so harsh and bitter that the song would reverberate in my mind for days. The images, I later found out, were personal and no one I knew shared them. The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. Images of people, teenagers my own age, looking up from the asphalt and being blinded by the sun. These images stayed with me even after I left the city. Images so violent and malicious that they seemed to be my only point of reference for a long time afterwards. After I left.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“Do you hate me now?"
"I'm hiding it. The hate."
"I see."
"I'm pretending it's not there."
"You're sweet."
"It's there though."
"I know."
"It's there.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“When I am very sad, I tend towards symbolism.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine