The Opera House Ballet Quotes

“My queen kissed me, I'm better now. But she's been betrayed by a careless kiss. Our master plan was dear to my heart, there is nothing built that won't fall apart. Sea to sea, you shine like heroin. Poison me, I'm happiest when we're skin to skin.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“Face to face with the creature, and it made him feel strange . . . Now me. They say suicide is painless. Tell me lies.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“He saw blank, tortured eyes. Blank. So blank, tortured and sleepless, like tired human batteries running off some perverse, human version of mosquito blood-lust.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“With baby in arm, I might try to clothe you. Before you lay your head down, know this . . . You lay in your own ash, frozen, in an expanse of abomination and potential.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“Here we are, alone. Dancing under lights for serpents.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“Why here?
Why this far from home?
Why here?
Why alone?
Why, why, why?
Why so nostalgic about those days?
Why those songs?
Why so comforting to reminisce?
Why so fond am I?
Why so old now?
Why so hard to die?
Why waiting?
Why then, and not now?
Why, why, why?
Why lessons?
Why teachers - students?
Why books?
Why work and no play?
Why tomorrow and not today?”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“With lips like yours, there's no need to speak. In cities of silver, you are the atmosphere, in a world of snow.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“Enjoy the silent nothing
A calm ocean
Tomorrow's storm
A violent vision
And then -
The wonder of shattering.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“In the summer she raises flags
And cannons blast worldwide
The silent war still rages inside her mind
The individual against the herd
The individual against nature.
We are all wretched things
Who dance and tilt when the piano plays
Oh now you've got soul, poor devil?
Now you've found your groove?
The dance of ruin
For men and beasts.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet

“We've done things to make you cry, but you've made men on earth go mad with sadness. And we're so desperate for your love, but you make us pass away alone in silence.”
― Josef Oteim, The Opera House Ballet