“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”

“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”

Passenger princess, king behind the wheel

Feels like the hour before closing at Chuck-E-Cheese.

the shape of earth

if I could talk to your friends they would dox my hinge prompts. I dream that I'm you and give birth to myself.

The cowboy hat envisioned itself a stampede of one, a solo herd, a runaway bandit.

Tell me the child remembers her mother.

The smile on her face huge and probably she knew then that she would marry him.

Love. That’s all I want. That’s all we want. These people. These dogs.

“I can’t handle Taurus moons,” she said one winter afternoon, the two of us bundled with blankets and hats.“It’s definitely the placement of it in her 9th house that’s made her so stubborn and impenetrable.

What author’s (dead or alive) persona is aspirational?
I have never found any authors to be aspirational.

The bullies, they made him feel young, alive. He would never admit this to anyone, but he was fairly sure the other teachers, after a glass of wine or three, would concur.

I am always wearing one of Freddy’s shirts. They are worn in perfectly and covered with jazz players on the front or artists that older people always recognize—artists I don’t really know anything about.

Asking if a computer can do art or science is like asking if a submarine can swim...

Every breakfast, lunch and dinner were meticulously documented, each square captioned with the day’s creation: superfood pumpkin risotto, fatty bananas (bananas and butter), avocado tomato mash, yummy liver and beets, creamy spinach and pear, soupy rice porridge, breast milk oatmeal, silky tofu, creamy vegetable soup

“...symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum. Or so I told myself.” – VALIS

“There’s a rose that grows on no man’s land, and it’s wonderful to see” – The Rose of No

i keep love around like a shirt i hope i’ll fit into again someday

you don’t want to 

come out

looking gauche

“If you want, we can try to unlock the phone using your dad’s thumb.”

"Do it," I heard myself say.

you can convince someone of 
anything at all

Infidelity is fed to us as sexier when it’s female

All Rachel ever wanted to be was a reality TV star. Rachel didn’t mind which show she ended up on, as long as she became famous and had at least 3 brand deals behind her.

You are so smooth-skinned / I would send your husband / to war to die.

Alice scoops the teeth up and puts them back in her mouth, slipping them into the holes they were ripped from. She is not sure where else they would go.

Is John Doe a writer, or just a content machine?

I ignored it when he admitted he had cheated on all of his girlfriends, and I ignored it when he became quickly angry over something small. I ignored the red flags