Shhhtevie St. Evie > Shhhtevie's Quotes

“Probably I am a fool…most poets are fools…but for some reason I love faith, but have none.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.”
― Richard Siken

“I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one’s own.”
― Martha Gellhorn

“And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

“The trouble is that I am crazy and the room, ah, my own room drinks me.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down.

He is the coffee, hot, steaming, filtered. You have to add stuff to it to make it taste good. Grinds your stomach, makes you jittery, wired, and tense. Bad trip, keeps you up, burns you out.

Coffee and gin don’t mix, never do, everybody keeps trying and trying to make it taste good.”
― Henry Rollins, See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die

“Oh, for Christ’s sake,” I hear. “Can we please just try to have a good time?” This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn’t work. I’ve tried it.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”
― Miranda July, The First Bad Man

“There was no apology in her eyes, no love or caring. But she saw me, I existed, and this lifted the beams off my shoulders. It takes so little.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Return is inevitable because we need something
To define ourselves against even if we know that
Whenever we want we can pull the plug and get out
Which is not the case with our own tighter confinement
Inside the body oh pity the bathtub but pity us too”
― Matthea Harvey, Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form

“I am like a table
that eats its own legs off
because it’s fallen
in love with the floor.”
― Cate Marvin, Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems