Going Down Quotes

“I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.”
― Chris Campanioni, Going Down

“I walk by, seeing myself walk by on a bag, someone’s hands gripping the paper handles above my neck, my curved waist, my gleam of sweat, me, half a block away, and think, you don’t know self-fragmentation until it’s staring you in the face.”
― Chris Campanioni, Going Down

“It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.”
― Chris Campanioni, Going Down

“Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.”
― Chris Campanioni, Going Down

“And maybe I knew how to look at a person, that exact angle to display, the way to shift the light on my face, but now I looked vacant, empty, naked … and for a fraction of a second—maybe more, maybe even a full second—I gave them fear, and finally, like a reel of film had been removed and I had to wait for another to be inserted, I smiled again.”
― Chris Campanioni, Going Down

“The whole world had become a stage, in which the props were continually shifting, four extras reprising the roles of twenty-four characters and people I’d never seen before playing my most beloved ones.”
― Chris Campanioni, Going Down

“It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality, or in each reality, underneath it all—I mean, behind it—the answer lies in”
― Chris Campanioni, Going Down

“Adiós. A Dios. To God. From God. De Dios. Dedos. My fingers waving. Good-bye.”
― Chris Campanioni, Going Down