Venetian Red

In most cases hurt washes out over time, but disappointment can stain permanently. — JONATHAN CARROLL

No matter what the subject– life, love, job, friendship…– as soon as we stop asking questions, it is the beginning of the end. — Jonathan Carroll

Everyone has a house inside them. It defines who they are. A specific style and form, a certain number of rooms. You think about it all your life– what does mine really look like? — JONATHAN CARROLL FROM OUTSIDE THE DOG MUSEUM

Bad love affairs, bad timing, bad mood, bad breath, bad dog… We live our days moving through varieties of bad. But it is mostly a minor thing, mundane ‘shit on the bottom of your shoe’ stuff. A bad taste, a bad kisser, the bad view which permits us to see just enough to annoy us that we can’t see more. They are all minor irritants, dust in the eye sort of annoyances. Because the word itself carries little psychic weight anymore. 'Bad’ is today’s verbal shrug. In contrast, in the old days if you said someone was a “bad” woman, that one word in certain contexts could ruin a person. Now if you say she is a bad woman, you’re asked to be more specific. We rarely raise an eyebrow or a fuss when bad barges into our lives again. We don’t jump back or stagger when faced with bad smells, bad breaks, bad advice. Maybe we blink or pause, but then we continue. Bad in any form is rarely powerful enough to knock us out or stop us cold. At heart it has become a wannabe, a pretender to the throne, the player who sits on the bench the whole season because he’s simply not good enough to be in the starting lineup -Jonathan Carroll

If you break trust’s backbone, it rarely ever heals right. — JONATHAN CARROLL