High Life Quotes

“I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.”
― Matthew Stokoe, High Life

“I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape commercials. It had been dirty and nasty but I wanted more.”
― Matthew Stokoe, High Life

“He parked his car carefully, made sure he'd set all the locks and the alarm. On the steps he kept looking behind him, snapping glances into shadows like he expected this to be a set-up with my gang waiting to roll him. Nervous. But I got this feeling the possibility of danger was all part of it for him. What he wanted was something with an edge to it, something stamped as unmistakable bad.

Welcome to the club, dude.”
― Matthew Stokoe, High Life

“These homeless people, these drunkards and junkies, these fucked-out hookers and runaway teenagers, these ex-cons and cons-in-waiting – all of them patinated with the violence of their despair – lived out entire lives on this dog-shitted margin of grass. Lived and drank and fixed and fucked here, and wondered what they might have been if things had been different. Yeah, fuck. A small, final step. It doesn’t take much.”
― Matthew Stokoe, High Life

“We shared an obsession with a better way of life. In Los Angeles that was probably as good as love.”
― Matthew Stokoe, High Life

“I tried to force something more definable out of myself, a few tears or a sob. The best I could manage was an anemic self-pity just before the pills kicked in and made manufacturing emotion redundant.”
― Matthew Stokoe, High Life