Shadows Before the Maiming Quotes

“I wish to walk arm in arm, hand in hand without your fears pervading, without my feeling that others are staring. I wish to lose the fog and retain you, your radiance, your strength, your essence.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Shadows Before the Maiming

“No one is asked whether they wish/
To be born. Everyone is asked to die. /
Life is comprised of the noisy silence /
One makes of it.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Shadows Before the Maiming

“I see things differently. Rocks look suspicious to me as do certain hubcaps. Paranoia seeps through my pores, it’s just a part of me. Truthfully, I don’t know what to say anymore. My body is a piece of art; I don’t care about external scars, it’s the internal ones I live with and Satan dances towards me.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Shadows Before the Maiming

“I lay in bed absorbing fear, collecting strength, enjoying the slumberous sounds of solitude. To perish without love, I think, is a tragedy worth knowing.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Shadows Before the Maiming

“i might go see
London After Midnight
at Coven 13 tonight
i might sit at home
and write lousy poems
i might play with my
cat and then go
trick people to death

it’s a
freeze
frame
happenstance
reality
of sickness”
― Scott C. Holstad, Shadows Before the Maiming

“she dreams dreams wrapped in unknown skins. sweat scented covers are tossed aside in her urgency. she dreams recklessly of reckless abandonment in a dark, dank world.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Shadows Before the Maiming