“Fuck no, that stuff just comes from food. The real poison comes out of your head. All your fuck-ups and sadnesses and fears drop down like some sort of brainshit into your guts and build up there. That's what really fucks you up. I told you before.”
― COWS
― COWS
“People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain cmmunicated in the vague language of sex.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.”
― The Crucible
― The Crucible
“where I could make love endless nights through sleepy mornings with my boyfriend, a guy who had grown up in Connecticut and played lacrosse and the guitar and me, and who loved me with naughty desire, respect, and abandon.”
― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
“When you see everything you realise nothing means anything.”
― God Jr.
― God Jr.
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