Bailey M > Bailey's Quotes

“I carry the universe in my house of flesh, I will love you until the last star burns out and the heavens descend into darkness.”
― Jaden Wilkes, Freakshow

“I’m going to fuck you until you fall apart...dissolve in my fingers. Then I’ll soothe your shattered soul and stitch you back together until everything has new meaning and Cairo is the only word you have for pleasure, remember?”
― Jaden Wilkes, Freakshow

“Piercing his giant cock had only served to make it look fiercer. Like it could beat me in an arm wrestle. Like he could club me with it and leave a bruise.”
― Jaden Wilkes, Freakshow

“Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Your inner whore is awakening, my love – the dirty bitch that resides beneath the prim exterior.”
― Lily White, Target This

“They broke things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Swarm

“How come you forget English when you swear?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Swarm

“If Chizara was agreeing with Ethan, things were bad.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Swarm

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“It’s funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“It was possible, I saw now, to be a grotesque, to be huge and free, to wander the streets in utter freedom despite your atrocity, as long as you did it when everybody else was sealed inside their little lit boxes.

Now it made sense – why monsters came out at night.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“Rather than simply being subject to them, I had wanted to know what it felt like to be one of the forces in this world.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“Promises are easy to make. [...] They speak of a defined future to which you are required to adhere. They commit you beyond the length of your experience.

What they do is take away possibility.

Promises are the opposite of hope.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“The snow came after two o' clock. It fell faintly in the cones of lamplight, descending like fleets or fairies through the cold sky. I was awake - the only one in town, I was sure - and I was sure those miniature fallen sylphs were for me and my personal delectation. They came for me, because nature likes a saint. They settled on my window sill, they collected on the dark grass of my lawn, they danced and whirled in the wind gusts before my eyes. I put my hand to the windowpane to greet it, the first snow. By the time I woke in the morning, I saw that after the snow had come to me, it had visited everyone.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“We are always told that honesty and truth are the shining ideals. But sometimes the truth could be used as a punishment.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“Who's out there?" I say.
"Just teenagers," my father says.
"Why are they like that?"
"That's just the way they are."
"Will I be like that when I grow up?"
"You? Perish the thought.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“It's funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt. You do it without even realizing.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“It is always a young girl's dream to have a boy believe in her most colorful fantasies. You paint landscapes with your humble heart, then you seek to populate them with boys who will understand.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“It was a holy night. I ran. My father slept soundly in his bed, somewhere far behind me, and I ran. Elsewhere in the world masses were being performed and stock was being taken of the glories and retreats of life - and it was nothing to me, because I ran. I was naked in the woods. It was a beautiful outrage.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“Goddamn it," he said, seething. "Goddamn you! No fear. Not an ounce of fucking fear. You invite - you invite - destruction. What's the world to you, huh? A place to die in? You aren't even a girl - you're a… you're a tragedy. There isn't a monster in the world - not a monster in the world till he meets an eager victim.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“I saw you come out with him. He hurt you." "Everybody hurts everybody."
"No."
He said no, but I wondered how could he not see that.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“I smeared honey on my chest, believing it might help me grown breasts. Honeybees are industrious - they can build anything.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals

“The way he was looking at me made me wonder if he was talking about something other than god. Or if maybe god and the way he looked at me with those voracious boy-eyes were related. I wanted more of it. His boy-eyes, his godliness, which I felt deep down, like a surge.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals