The Mustache He's Always Wanted but Could Never Grow Quotes

“She left her heels here. God, of all the things she could have left—earrings, boogered-up tissue paper, soiled panties, a toothbrush—she leaves her damn heels—O cruel fate!—the same ones she wore the night I first took her to bed—looked real good in them, too. She wanted them off at first, but I wouldn’t let her, I said, “If you remove those heels, I’ll fuck them instead of you.”
― Brian Alan Ellis, The Mustache He's Always Wanted but Could Never Grow: And Other Stories

“Cigarette smoke curls up like the toes of every dead thing, and I murder this room like some quiet, careful apparition; nothing is broken or misplaced.”
― Brian Alan Ellis, The Mustache He's Always Wanted but Could Never Grow: And Other Stories

“A man is only as good as his mustache.” —Ancient Chinese Proverb*”
― Brian Alan Ellis, The Mustache He's Always Wanted but Could Never Grow: And Other Stories