Max Watson > Max's Quotes

“She said she wouldn't be here tonight. She wanted to stay in. Her mouth is hot, her hands all knowing. I'm too far gone to resist. My Secret Princess. Did she lie and disguise herself to hide to plain sight? To find herself a stranger, to spend tonight with no one? She could only see one of my eyes and nothing else of my face. A shoddy thrown together costume became my new identity, and with it, this pirate stole the princess.”
― Max Watson, Chains of Nurture

“Idly, in the strange purgatory between reality and the dream realm, I ponder the absurdity of these last few hours. I killed him, we buried him. And yet, our thoughts and actions are as if nothing happened...
A sardonic thought settles in the milky haze of my exhausted delirium.
I became a woman today.
But whose blood truly signified it?”
― Max Watson, Chains of Nurture

“My bed to the right, where it has always been. Her bed, in another room. I did not know what to do with that empty corner where her bed should have gone. It looked foreign, the exposed strip of carpet. It looked wrong, that empty coldness squatting in the corner, laughing and pointing a clawed finger at me.”
― Max Watson, Chains of Nurture

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover