Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever
33 quotes
"In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else."
"And confessions of love have always seemed out of place when you’re gasping for air, when you’re begging for pain,when you’re missing something, unable to change the channel."
"I haven’t felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders,and I haven’t experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I’ve put out into this great bigwhite world."
"I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be."
"There's stranger sex than sex with strangers."
"My desire to self-destruct is a one-night standon Groundhog Day.Fucking repetitive. Repetitively fucking."
"I talk too much, but there's a lot unsaid. I've slept in a lot of beds."
"You grow bored of these shrines, and you abandon thembecause you know for a fact that you will worshipanything you kneel before.Like God.Like cock.Like porcelain."
"It’s so hard not to be fascinated by the broken, to remember that a boy with a sad smile and a pretty face is not the boy that you should fall in love with."
"And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that I can stand still."
"A drop in the bucket, a tear in the ocean, you’ve been treading cold water, memorizing the motion just to stay afloat."
"You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster,and nobody is so worriedabout you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading."
"You are only as deepas the ashtrays you use. You only stick around because you like the abuse."
"I’m a lot like you,and you’re a lot like me.It’s sad to say,and it’s sad to see."
"It isn’t easy,” is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can dois say really easy things to each other."
"I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves."
"The piece of you that loves a part of me tries its best to hold onto the rest,but my heart is a thousand-piece puzzle of a faraway galaxy, deep purple,colors blending together and impossible to place."
"You ask yourself when you’ll learn, and the answer is always,“Tomorrow."
"Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip."
"I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict."
"You give the shirt off your back, no questions asked, and you stand alone at the cavernous mouth of your suburban closet—your entire life spent wonderingwhere your clothes went."
"I gave them everything I had, and I guess it feelsalright.I gave them my body,and they use it every night."
"Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier said than done."
"In the soft light of morning, the sky outside turning light blue, my answer is always and still: “I’m fine."
"My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father."