Paula Elias

“Don’t undress my love you might find a mannequin; don’t undress the mannequin you might find my love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“And now I wonder which animal of us will eat the other first physically and last spiritually?”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I had thought that when you feel your worst your tears flood, but the very worst pain is the arid pain of total violation that comes after the tears are all used up, the pain that stops up every space through which you once metered the world, or the world, you. This is the presence of major depression.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“I got his ashes, she said, and I took them out to sea and I scattered his ashes and they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with green and blue pebbles…”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell