Split Lips Quotes

“There’s a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.”
― Kris Kidd, Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

“February falls on top of me like a cartoon piano. I reek of champagne, come, and CK One.”
― Kris Kidd, Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

“Another piano falls, but this time it’s me— or my lascivious loneliness, or my grab bag of mental instabilities and emotional shortcomings, or whatever.”
― Kris Kidd, Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

“And then he’s somewhere inside of me, each thrust rattling my ribcage like a bottle of pills. I’m somewhere outside of myself, thinking about lust— about my slutty white sheets and all the men who like to hide in them.”
― Kris Kidd, Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

“Weight loss is a game I know how to win.”
― Kris Kidd, Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

“Sometimes, when I’m chain smoking on the balcony and feeling like shit (which happens more often than I’d like to admit), I let go of a lit cigarette just to see if the ember will outlast the fall.

It rarely does.”
― Kris Kidd, Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex