“The only person who knew your weak spots better than the woman who raised you was the woman who shared your bed.”
― Blacktop Wasteland
― Blacktop Wasteland
“Explanations were like assholes. Everyone has one and they are all full of shit.”
― Blacktop Wasteland
― Blacktop Wasteland
“It occurred to Buddy Lee that anything could be a weapon if you were dedicated enough. Even love. Especially love.”
― Razorblade Tears
― Razorblade Tears
“When the people you love are gone, it's the things they've touched that keep them alive in your mind”
― Razorblade Tears
― Razorblade Tears
“The west you talk about doesn’t exist. It’s a fairytale, a fantasy you sell yourself because the alternative is to admit that you are the least important character in your own story. You invent an entire world because your conscience demands it, you invent good people and bad people and you draw a neat line between them because your simplistic morality demands it. But the two kinds of people in this world are not good and bad, they are engines and fuel. Go ahead, change your country, change your name, change your accent, pull the skin right off your bones, but in their eyes they will always be the engines and you will always, always be fuel.”
― What Strange Paradise
― What Strange Paradise
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