Bath Haus Quotes

“And running away doesn’t make a fucking difference because I follow me wherever I go.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“Last night’s spent condom lies on the floor beside my socks, and I roll over to pull them on.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“So perhaps, Reader, you and I have never met, but we both belong in books—and perhaps that’s where we might meet after all.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“I also think about how in that excruciating moment—with an urge so deep in my bones it brought me to tears—I did the right thing. And I think about how maybe, just maybe, that means I can do the right thing a second time.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“What scares you so shitless that the lies are worth it?”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“We’re in a bad spot, but aren’t those what define love? The downs, how you manage and endure them because who the hell has trouble with the ups? This, right now”—I splay my fingers on the table—“is the shit nobody talks about because it’s hard.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“And there's no pain worse than deciding to live. Ripping your thumping, beating self out from clamped jaws--that kind of hurt doesn't stop with scar tissue. Maybe it dulls as decades pass, like folks say, but the pieces of flesh you leave behind never grow back.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“I can't escape from myself any more than I can crawl out of my own skin.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“I'm a rope. A rapidly fraying, unraveling rope. How much is left? What happens when it runs out?”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus

“An undeniable pleasure blooms. This man lusts for me and being objectified is an intoxicating little feeling I’ve missed terribly.”
― P.J. Vernon, Bath Haus