The Memory of Water Quotes

“You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“What would Warhol be without his paranoia, Hunter S. Thompson without his Quaaludes, Johnny Cash without his philandering? We Somebodies are not expected to walk the line.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“You’re a taker. And you’ve been taking for a long time. And I think that you can only take so much from the universe before it closes shop.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“My heart is an empty refrigerator.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water

“Time itself is a gift-curse. Time says: ‘Look here! Here is a precious moment to do something with!’ Then as soon as you try to grasp the moment, it’s gone. And you haven’t done anything. And while you’re thinking about that, there is another moment, and then it too is gone. Cruel, like an eternal game of pass-the-parcel.”
― J.T. Lawrence, The Memory of Water