14 Quotes by Gavin Edwards

River mostly contributed backing vocals and handclaps, although he may have played some guitar on “Rock Out with Your Cock Out.

That’s the end of the drugs,” he promised. “I don’t want to go down to the place that’s so dark it’ll annihilate me.

The human spirit is a mysterious thing: traumas that flatten some people bounce off of others.

Mostly, she tried to get on with her life, even as she carried around her loss and her horror. The lesson she took from River’s death was to be more selfish: since life is fleeting, don’t waste it with the wrong people.

For River to discover himself in Rimbaud’s life and Miller’s prose was simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. Tellingly, he was more interested in Miller’s book than in Rimbaud’s actual writing: he responded to Rimbaud not as a poet, but as a symbol.