Down for Whatever Quotes

“You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster,
and nobody is so worried
about you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“My desire to self-destruct is a one-night stand
on Groundhog Day.
Fucking repetitive. Repetitively fucking.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“And confessions of love have always seemed out of place when you’re gasping for air, when you’re begging for pain,
when you’re missing something, unable to change the channel.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“I’m a lot like you,
and you’re a lot like me.
It’s sad to say,
and it’s sad to see.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“You preach cleanliness,
so I try to keep my room clean,
but I feel no closer to God, and I guess that’s okay
because he doesn’t know
who he’s fucking with anyway.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“You are only as deep
as the ashtrays you use. You only stick around because you like the abuse.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier said than done.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“It isn’t easy,” is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can do
is say really easy things to each other.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that I can stand still.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“You were trying to find a way to get rid of yourself,
but you were still left with your mouth.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“I like people with weak will and bad taste.
It feels like anything is possible.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“There's stranger sex than sex with strangers.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“It’s so hard not to be fascinated by the broken, to remember that a boy with a sad smile and a pretty face is not the boy that you should fall in love with.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“This is a view that reminds you of you.
This is a metaphor you had nothing to do with.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“You give the shirt off your back, no questions asked, and you stand alone at the cavernous mouth of your suburban closet—
your entire life spent wondering
where your clothes went.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“The piece of you that loves a part of me tries its best to hold onto the rest,
but my heart is a thousand-piece puzzle of a faraway galaxy, deep purple,
colors blending together and impossible to place.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“Years from now, I will pass this same park, and I won’t remember any of this.
Instead, I will feel something like a spark— a heat like August
in a suburban town,
and a desire to grow
even when I know I’ll be cut down.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“A drop in the bucket, a tear in the ocean, you’ve been treading cold water, memorizing the motion just to stay afloat.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“In the soft light of morning, the sky outside turning light blue, my answer is always and still: “I’m fine.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“My blood makes noise. And I’m saying this now, because I have a strange gut feeling that it will be silenced someday soon.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“You grow bored of these shrines, and you abandon them
because you know for a fact that you will worship
anything you kneel before.
Like God.
Like cock.
Like porcelain.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“They say you can’t build Rome in a day, but I’m pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever

“I haven’t felt the full weight
of the world on my shoulders,
and I haven’t experienced
a fraction of the pain
and embarrassment I’ve put out into this great big
white world.”
― Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever