Here Kitty Kitty Quotes

“New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going--whether we know it or not, would deny it or not--by the kiss of a stranger.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“The stuff that changes your life is never very dramatic. You know? Not to other people.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the idea of it the way you blow a dying fire.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“But in this life we take turns at being enchanting, then enchanted. First we play in the streets, unaware of the freedom burning in the sun on our hair and the cigarette in our mouth, unconscious of the daydreams we inspire. Then it's our time to sit at a window and watch, and we are moved.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die before we finish our dreams. Acutally, that we die is a pretty big surprise by itself. We can't spend innocence without accounting. Relationships are contracts. We partner not just for love but because we become too weak to make it alone.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“She'd half loved men, and they'd half failed her.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“I stood in my own field, wanting obligations to fall from me. This is one way of contemplating suicide, yet it's the exact opposite: what I wanted was to be alive, to escape all the damage, to shed it like snakeskin, to emerge pure and naked and laughing.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“But one day, the things that make you free start to keep you down.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched a pussycat playing with stars in a black room.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“I now doubted myself. Innocencce was finite and could not be regenerated. Like spinal fluid. I knew this because I had run out.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“And I want to go, to be part of it. Absurd as this is, I yearn after the place where they vanished. But in this life we take turns at being enchanting, then enchanted. First we play in the streets, unaware of the freedom burning in the sun on our hair and the cigarette in our mouth, unconscious of the daydreams we inspire. Then it's our time to sit at a window and watch, and we are moved.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty

“The hollows around her eyes were darkly glamorous, her mouth sullen: she had the beauty of an insomniac.”
― Jardine Libaire, Here Kitty Kitty