Pivot Quotes

“They expect from me a flicker, and I give them stars.”
― L.C. Barlow, Pivot

“And in this simple moment, I suddenly began to wonder if perhaps we shake hands with God in agreement to the lives we live, before we are ever born.”
― L.C. Barlow, Pivot

“There are no such things as angels, I thought to myself as I walked that path. There is only Cyrus, those who follow him, and those who sneak around him. Everything is a backwards dealing, a script where errors are miracles, and corrections are only a bullet away.

As for good works, they are dangerous and impossible. Only the likes of demons can successfully complete them, and they know not wholly what they do.”
― L.C. Barlow, Pivot

“My roommate leaves me notes on rose petals.               Tonight, they read:               "I'll be"               "Back"               "Very"               "Late"               It was a black pen on red petals.  Her flowers must be dying again.”
― L.C. Barlow, Pivot

“These nights, when I do dream, it is usually of God. And He tells me that something is headed my way again. And I tell Him, 'It's too soon.”
― L.C. Barlow, Pivot

“When the shark stops biting, when the snake stops hissing, when the wolves stop eating their own like they've been taught to do, and they learn to desire something outside of these cycles and sinister instincts, that's something.' Roland put his hands together again on the top of a lily pad. 'It is better than gold. It's what people eat their hearts out for.”
― L.C. Barlow, Pivot

“In my experience, there are, usually, only two types of people in the world. There are the ones who, if you will so kindly excuse the biblical reference, really do take the apple from the snake. And their bites are hearty. Their chin is always dripping with the juice. And that juice, over time, turns to blood. Yet, they keep on eating. They learn to like it.

On the other hand, there are those who run from the snake. They never look back, and they never try anything that even remotely looks like an apple. They have no taste for it. They recognize a jug of blood when they see it.

But every once in a while, I come across someone like you. Someone who, if they were set into the garden, and the snake came upon them, they would never eat, yet never run. Rather, they'd say to the snake, 'Keep talking, because this moment is the moment. I'll never say yes to you, I'll never say no. just let me sit here, right here. That is my pleasure.' Where you get pleasure is in the border that divides. Not many get it, get you, but I do.”
― L.C. Barlow, Pivot

“No worries.  I'm rich, and the rich never make true friends. ”
― L.C. Barlow, Pivot