Cuckoo Quotes

“No one loves me, because I am unlovable. Because I’ve failed them. Because they hate me and wanted me dead from the beginning and every kind word they ever spoke was just the flashlight held to hypnotize the stupid fucking loudmouth frog. This is why you’ve sabotaged your life every time you’ve had the chance.”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Cuckoo

“This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. This is what we hear when you pray for a cure. This is what we know, when you tell us of your fondest hopes and dreams for us: that your greatest wish is that one day we will cease to be, and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces. “Don’t Mourn For Us,” Jim Sinclair Our Voice, volume 1, number 3, 1993”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Cuckoo

“He hadn’t been able to love her, his soft round wife with her wavy golden hair and ruddy cheeks, the product falsely advertised by the thin, hollow-cheeked woman in their wedding photo, and he hated that John hadn’t minded at all, that his fat wife and his fat son had adored each other, had even sometimes been happy in spite of the cold, looming presence of his martyred disapproval.”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Cuckoo

“Euphoria, picked at like a blister, voided itself.”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Cuckoo

“Cheryl, face twisted into a lined rictus, crawling roachlike through the garden on all fours.”
― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Cuckoo