and Falling, Fly Quotes

“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic lashes.”
― Skyler White, and Falling, Fly

“Beliefs are what you know without choosing to. Just believe.”
― Skyler White, and Falling, Fly

“But he’s genuine twenty-first-century and only faking patience.”
― Skyler White, and Falling, Fly

“Desire denied consumes”
― Skyler White, and Falling, Fly

“The whole island is spotted with derelict cottages and abandoned churches like this one. They sit in pastures as invisible to the Irish as a mother is to a teenage girl.”
― Skyler White, and Falling, Fly

“I meet the answering machine’s small, steady stare. “What do you do when God tells you no?” I ask. But it doesn’t answer me, so I undress for bed”
― Skyler White, and Falling, Fly

“You’ll have to excuse Harry. He has what I call ‘chauffeured child syndrome.’ ” “He’s been driven all his life?” “That is correct. He has no drive of his own at all.”
― Skyler White, and Falling, Fly

“My damnation is darkest when I am not angry or afraid, when I cannot feel God damning or the Devi's tempting. Then I am only pain.”
― Skyler White, and Falling, Fly