piss angel

“There is nothing like forgiveness. Real forgivenesss. It makes you want to weep.”

“I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I’ve always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it’s so like me.”

“A hideous solitude extended before me and I drove my rebellious heart onward.”

“I am too young and I’ve loved you too much.”

“Perhaps the shame I feel is a stand-in for the shame I think someone ought to feel.”

“The men who scare me most come not like wolves but like mice / and gnaw away at the floor beneath my feet.”

“I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.”

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter – they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”