Billy Sharplin

“The way men touch you is so different from how boys do. Like they know all the handles and levers. Which felt so unfair, really.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

“Getting old is like driving through snow that just gets deeper and deeper. When you finally get in over your hubcaps, you just spin and spin. That’s life. There are no plows to come and dig you out. Your ship isn’t going to come in, girl. There are no boats for nobody. You’re never going to win a contest. There’s no camera following you and people watching you struggle. This is it. All of it. Everything.”
― Richard Bachman, Roadwork

“when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything”
― Dennis Cooper, God Jr.

“Well, it’s very much for each person to experience alone,” he said, and whatever truth he meant to get at, his eyes were the visible scars of it.”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke