Caroline Hall

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Everyone was addicted to saying you went into a cocoon to grow wings and emerge as a beautiful miracle. But what no one ever mentioned was how the caterpillar’s body actually broke down inside the cocoon, turning to mush before its reconstruction. Sometimes the hardest part about your twenties was knowing what stage you were in: if you had been mush, were currently mushing down, or had mush yet ahead of you.”
― Frankie Barnet, Mood Swings: A Novel

“No, she would never have fucked Mr. Burns, not even on a dare.”
― Frankie Barnet, Mood Swings: A Novel

“couldn’t understand what was wrong with her or why she did it why she needed whiskey. there was nothing in my life as ugly as she was. now I have been drunk for 40 years and I hear all the voices of those I have known as one voice: “you just aren’t yourself when you get drunk, you are one of the meanest drunks I have ever seen, you are disgusting…” well, I don’t ask them to hang around and they don’t.”
― Charles Bukowski, Dangling in the Tournefortia: Honest American Poems—Raw, Witty Struggles with Women, Gambling, and Booze