11 Quotes by Charles R. Cross

It was a pattern he would play out his entire life: Rather than lose someone he cared for, he would withdraw first, usually by creating some mock conflict as a way of lessening the abandonment he felt was inevitable.

By the second week of November 1990, a new character had begun to spring forth in Kurt’s journal writings, and this figure would soon make its way into almost every image, song, or story. He intentionally misspelled its name, and in doing so he was granting it a life of its own. Oddly, he gave it a female persona, but since it became his great love that Fall – and even made him throw up, just like Tobi – there was a fairness in this gender choice. He called it ‘heroine’.