Burn Me Quotes

“Between the two of us we’ve made the inside of my car smell like the inside of a gay bathhouse in seventies San Francisco, minus the poppers.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Burn Me

“Every now and again my brain craps out and decides it’s not going to let me experience happiness for a while.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Burn Me

“He kisses the ski-jump tip that I hate, because of the way it makes me look like some startled small mammal sticking its nose out of a burrow. It’s been called cute, but that doesn’t make me more likely to forgive its effect on my profile. I’m thirty, which is around the age when ‘cute’ begins to look a little Baby Jane Hudson.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Burn Me

“You can’t show addicts a picture of a poo and say ‘You could crap like this if you join our rehab program.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Burn Me

“But please don’t start blaming yourself. Not now, because I’m in no mental shape to be having that fucking conversation, okay?” I snuffle and sob. “Okay.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Burn Me

“I have work to do, but it’s hard. Pun intended. I’m trying to get into what motivated Mallory to attempt the mountain in the first place, but Rocco is under my skin.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Burn Me

“Everything feels different, now that I know that Rocco is in love with me. Everything else feels dim and gray and unimportant, and immediately I wonder if anything else in my life will ever measure up to the wonder of this time we have together, when the colors of the forest are so bright they hurt my eyes, and just the movement of air against my skin feels like a caress.”
― Jess Whitecroft, Burn Me