“And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?
I try to smile. What's the difference, really.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“Disappear, she says. I love that word.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. It's a appropriate, I think. And still I feel worthless. I want to comfort her, to chase her fears into the snow. But sympathy is buried in me, like a stone in the belly of a goat. And the goat is the rare animal that will eat garbage. I hold her hand until she falls asleep, then steal fifty dollars from her purse.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“my life comes apart like a love letter in the rain.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“My face is still marked with Henry's blood and I bend over this boy as if I'm taking a drink from a fountain in the park. I brush his nearly dead lips and they are dry as the back of my hand. His tongue barely touches mine and pulls away like a thief and oh Lucy if you had only asked me for this.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“...because there is nothing so arousing as fear and submission and the threat of violence.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“I stare at Isabel without blinking. I stare until I can see the pale roots of her natural hair and the expensive skin cream that changed her skin from milk to olive and the colored lenses that gave her yellow eyes and I wonder how she changed her breasts and ass and shortened her legs. I stare at her until her eyes are pointed and her teeth glitter like fangs and I have to close my eyes. If she said her name was Lucy and she faked her death I would believe her.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“The urge to flee is a high-pitched whistle and I stare into a black cavity of space that stinks of urine and dead flowers. Of rotting oranges and leather and spray paint. I crawl into the space and find a corner. I stare into the shadows and I see several corpselike figures, coiled in burlap sacks around me. Sleeping drunks with the faces of dogs, of horses. I blink and they’re not there.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
“I can even hear the sun. It sounds like a jet taking off in the middle of the night.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Kiss Me, Judas
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“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
“The absolute contingency of the encounter with someone I didn’t know finally takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.”
― Alain Badiou, quote from In Praise of Love
“Overcoming the obstacles of physical ailments and hurt makes us stronger for the ordeal.”
― Michael Newton, quote from Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
“who wants to live in an ivory tower when there is fresh air to breathe anyway? I want to be outside with the misfits, with the rebels, the dreamers, second-chance givers, the radical grace lavishers, the ones with arms wide open, the courageously vulnerable, and among even—or maybe especially—the ones rejected by the Table as not worthy enough or right enough.”
― Sarah Bessey, quote from Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
“There are lots of beautiful pedigree dogs roaming the streets. Their owners probably had to let them go because they couldn’t feed them anymore. Sad. Yesterday I watched a cocker spaniel cross the bridge, not knowing which way to go. He was lost. He wanted to go forward, but then he stopped, turned around and looked back. He was probably looking for his master. Who knows whether his master is still alive? Even animals suffer here. Even they aren’t spared by the war.”
― Zlata Filipović, quote from Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
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