

“It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker

“Living is a horizontal fall.”
― Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
― Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

“I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon. ”
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“Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
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