Try Quotes

“Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.”
― Dennis Cooper, Try

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m too verbal, I know. The school therapist says I’m, uh . . . I’m afraid if I don’t tell you I like you all the time—oh, ’cos I told her how important our friendship is now—that you’ll have a reason to reject me. But she says it works the opposite way, and, uh, that I’m really just trying to make it impossible for you to say how you feel about me, ’cos I’m afraid what you’ll say is I don’t really matter to you.”
― Dennis Cooper, Try

“I used to love him. Then I figured out he was a fascist from talking to my psychiatrist.”
― Dennis Cooper, Try

“Maybe. Like when you love someone, you don’t mind the gross parts. They’re just . . . part of the bargain.”
― Dennis Cooper, Try

“Ziggy turns his happiness on Roger, who’s blanked out, eyes fixed on the road, not listening, though that’s obviously impossible, because of . . . physics or whatever. Shit.”
― Dennis Cooper, Try