“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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“And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.”
― Graham Greene, quote from The End of the Affair
“Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time.”
― Sena Jeter Naslund, quote from Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
“A critic looking at these tightly focused, targeted interventions might dismiss them as Band-Aid solutions. But that phrase should not be considered a term of disparagement. The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems. In their history, Band-Aids have probably allowed millions of people to keep working or playing tennis or cooking or walking when they would otherwise have had to stop. The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, quote from The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
“You wanted me." His breaths come fast, his eyes wild. "Here I am." He fucks his cock into me ten times, fast and hard, making me yelp in delight of his claiming, and when my muscles seize up and my body prepares for another earth-shattering orgasm, he lets me come, keeping the frantic pace, and then growls and prolongs his own orgasm…”
― Katy Evans, quote from Real
“We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from If Tomorrow Comes
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