33 Quotes by Joshua Gaylord

It’s funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.

Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.

Who's out there?" I say."Just teenagers," my father says."Why are they like that?""That's just the way they are.""Will I be like that when I grow up?""You? Perish the thought.

We all have stories to tell. Our demons are sunk deep under our skin, and maybe we use stories to exorcise them - or at least know them truly.

It was possible, I saw now, to be a grotesque, to be huge and free, to wander the streets in utter freedom despite your atrocity, as long as you did it when everybody else was sealed inside their little lit boxes.Now it made sense – why monsters came out at night.

the worst kind of devil is the kind that believes itself to be holy

Rather than simply being subject to them, I had wanted to know what it felt like to be one of the forces in this world.

I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.

I was naked in the woods. It was a beautiful outrage.