103 Quotes by Kathleen Glasgow

It could be disappointment, too, Tiger, and you need to prepare yourself for that. But if it’s disappointing, it doesn’t have to be devastating, does that make sense? Life has this, life has that, and then something else comes along again, like a wave. We ride the waves. You go down, you go up, you go down, sometimes you just drift.

I don’t feel sad. For just now, I don’t feel scared. I feel, for right now, well, kind of triumphant.

After he died, my mother was like a crab: she tucked everything inside and left only her shell.

Each aberration of my skin is a song. Press your mouth against me. You will hear so much singing.

Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don’t you die.

I cut because I can’t deal. It’s as simple as that. The world becomes an ocean, the ocean washes over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.

People aren’t nice, people aren’t nice, you should know that by now.

Everything and everybody that’s busted can be fixed. That’s what I think.

I’m so lonely in the world I want to peel all of my flesh off and walk, just bone and gristle, straight into the river, to be swallowed.