“You're not my sweetheart, you're myself. My heart or my sex. A branch of me.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“Sometimes I was unfaithful to my grandmother during our walks. I would stop and let her walk on ahead, I would bend down and do up my shoelace, quickly I would pick up a stone or pebble, then run after her and give her my free hand. When the stone or pebble was warm I let it fall on something soft: the grass or sand. Then I could breathe with the satisfaction of having had an existence of my own.”
― La Bâtarde
― La Bâtarde
“Quite solemnly I told myself: "even though I'm still undecided at present and appear to be an idle pleasure-seeker par excellence, this is no reason to doubt that perhaps soon a time will come when I'll be firm resolution itself and ready to take on the full harshness, the utter nakedness, of life just as bravely as the next fellow."
I was not a little proud of this monologue.”
― Masquerade and Other Stories
I was not a little proud of this monologue.”
― Masquerade and Other Stories
“Martin walking in dim, green places--she could picture his life away in the forests, a man's life, good with the goodness of danger, a primitive, strong, imperative thing--a man's life, the life that should have been hers--And her eyes filled with heavy, regretful tears, yet she did not quite know for what she was weeping. She only knew that some great sense of loss, some great sense of incompleteness possessed her, and she let the tears trickle down her face, wiping them off one by one with her finger.”
― The Well of Ioneliness
― The Well of Ioneliness
“Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes.
You will be released from sexual obsessions.
You will not have drug addictions.
You will not need alcohol.
You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease.
You will be free.”
― Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller
You will be released from sexual obsessions.
You will not have drug addictions.
You will not need alcohol.
You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease.
You will be free.”
― Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller
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