Dayspring Quotes

“when i sleep i remember days that never were. i dream a life i never saw and which i now see he never wanted...”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“saint sebastian was a roman soldier. hot idiot twink go-go dancer pass around party bottom of the lord pincushioned through with arrows”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“when god died he died whimpering”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“the fox has a den
and
the bird has a nest
only humans go homeless”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“god may laugh in flowers but in the waters i have heard his roar his rage”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“Love is what ruins. Love is what costs. Love is a flaming sword at our backs, a garden left to ruin and to wild.”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“you teach about God
mouthing the words of prophets you would have killed”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“your weight pushing down hard impossible and through my relenting flesh, and i am suffocant stinging dissolved ripped apart by each thrust into the white-hot obliterated”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“surviving is easy it’s the other thing that’s hard”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“perhaps god is strong enough to exult in monotony”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“to have been a little bit silly, and a little bit pitied, and a little bit loved”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“from silence speaks the light.
in the beginning was the word
the symptom of language then is reality”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“since his youth he had known his difference like a tooth out of place, his tongue testing its porcelain like an oyster’s pearl, a hard bright kernel readying itself to rip from flesh”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“the body is never the index of sin
aesthetics are never ethics
and illness is never iniquity”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“a miracle is the sound of reality buckling”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“a caravaggio universe catching tax collectors and vacationing stockbrokers in chiaroscuro denunciations”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“if you were of their world
then they would love you
you are not
you never will be”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“behold: an artificial adam crashing down at megiddo, paving gehenna to put up a depraved parking-lot paradise”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“apostate in your arms a body profaned and torn”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“beware: your enemy in Hell is well-organized and well-administered”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“and i felt the world rewire with possibility i was utterly lost. i was utterly yours”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“and you became my faith”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“be as kind to others as you are to yourself
be as kind to yourself as you are to others
that’s it”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“in the dark unseen until it is too late to stop that is how seeds grow”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“break my heart as many times as you need to i am yours”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“taste the strange flesh of Sodom i have grown all my life as salt fruit for you upon my bones”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“there is no ethical consumption under corporeality”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“i had grown so used to the rise of this hot flush alone, as a shame and secret—a deed done in the dark, now brought to searing light”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“love is what ruins. love is what costs. love is a flaming sword at our backs a garden left to ruin and to wild gone to seed”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring

“let the mountain and the rock hide me
let the water cold and new trickle amid the dust where i finally sleep
and let the mulch of me the amber sap extruded into souvenir bottles feed something better”
― Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring