Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet
20 quotes
"I don’t need the facts. I’m a Pisces."
"But now that I’m scrubbingtoilets on my hands & knees,with four degrees,I realize that one escape routeleads to another"
"There’s a universalunderstanding betweenmen of the silent sorrowa man endures whenhe loses a woman heloves"
"and tonight we held each other, one last time,like a dance to aslow songon an empty floor, underneath a singledisco ballin front of no oneat all"
"Two kinds ofpeople will love you:those who confessit, and those whoshow you, likecards on a table,because love isa gamble"
"AdiosHer pretty picturelying on theground was likethe topplingof somefascistregimeAnd burningthe photograph,was thecelebration"
"Fear is the vehicle in which love can do its worst."
"to live asubstance-freelife under thepressures ofthe daily grindis state-sponsoredsuicide"
"I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide."
"Some people are hard to forget, but some people are hard to remember."
"I traded in myfreedom fora needy, whinyand defiantfour-year-old,a junky girlfriend,and a relationshipriddled withsomeone else’sproblemsNow, I stareout of openwindows likea wild mustangcraving openfieldsI clench mycrotch, wheremy ballsused to be,and I hum aloathsome tune,like an out-of-work castratowho’s realized his dreams of someday having his own familyare gone"
"It’s sadthat burnt marshmallowsmake me think ofmethamphetamine,when theyshould bringback childhoodmemories ofs’mores"
"He was tiredof being calleda fag and teasedfor his sexualityby one of the guards,so he tried to hanghimself, twiceThe kid got a littlecloser the secondtime, but I won’t bearound to see athird"
"We should’ve thrown fucking riots the first time they had us ring up and bag our owngroceries"
"When I was achild my worldwasn’t blackand white,it was grey,until I gotbeat upenough timesto realizemy skin wasbeige, anddifferent"
"Some days I’mtrying to forcea smile sohard it feelslike I mightshit my pants"
"We aim to bemen who’ll makeour mothers proud,but we end upmaking them cry,and are onlyslightly betterthan our fathers,at best"
"Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world,I drank to escapemyself"
"We had scar-tissueromance and ours wasa relationship of sayinggoodbye—every timewe fought, every timewe fucked, and every timewe called it quits, beforepicking up our knivesagain"
"Failure is the new success."