“Darling, all night/I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.” – Sylvia Plath, Fever 103°.
Patrick Hoelck
quotes
“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.“ – Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin.
“Every man winds up with the horse that suits him.” – Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain.
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.“ – Roberto Bolaño.
“Oh, I was young, then, and I walked in my body like a queen.” – Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies.
“Heal the scars from off my back
I don’t need them anymore
You can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars
I’ve come home.”
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” – Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star.
“Speak every time you stand so that you do not forget yourself.
Never let a moment go by you that doesn’t remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day.
That there are enough gallons of blood to make you an ocean.
Do not settle for letting these waves settle and for the dust to collect in your veins."
– Anis Mojgani, Shake the Dust.
“Don’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be happy all the time… It’s gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea.
“I kissed her. Kissing is more intimate than fucking. That’s why I never liked my girlfriends to go around kissing men. I’d rather they fucked them.” – Charles Bukowski, Women.