Burn My Shadow Quotes

“I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“I'm a Polaroid developing in reverse”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction?”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“Bragging about winning porn awards is like showing mommy what you did in the toilet.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“Me, shooting smut in the back of a speeding van with two white girls--bald cunts, panties around their ankles--is a game of "Pin the Felony on the Negro" waiting to happen.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“Many seasoned porn whores develop an ability to check out at will. The girl, on her back has unlit vacancy signs where her eyes once were.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“So few people who do porn for so many years make it when matriculating back into the real world. The recidivism rate for porn performers rivals that among career criminals for the same basic reason. It's all they know.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“He smiles, but in Los Angeles a smile amongst competitors is never what it means.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“The camera's greedy lens sucks my image through it and splashes my pixilated ghost across his face in pale blue light.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“Viagra, Valtrex, Valium... you fuck enough strangers, you're taking a blue pill with a "V" on it.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“There they are. Two girls built like pagan fertility dolls, resting on their haunches, caked from head-toe in the multi-shaded come of every man who gave his offering before me”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life