7 Quotes by Lisa Marie Basile

… I am me, but am notme: I have spent my entire life & all of its sufferingboth as spectator & subject. a woman trapped eternally as achild waiting for the holy father. I look pretty but feel soyoung, standing on the curb sucking on the lemon of thesun.

I am afraid of photographs. I am ashamed they will showwhere I really come from. From particles of light, a slowholding of breath as if I were filling with dirt & I am, becausewhere I come from is a place outside and it is not normal...

I don't respect these monsters but I weep anyway.I curl my fingers in so that my palms bleed,because I have been afraid of this whole entire life,of being a pretty little thing.being a pretty thingis a problem. no one wants you,not even the dead.

… I am born and born again.I am born to represent the white plain of redemptionto fuck carefully siphoning the blood out of you.I am reconstructing my body to take inwhat you took out, and it fits.

Did you inherit a sickness? Did you blame god? Do you believe in God? Do you believe in yourself? Are you still on fire? Did you ever put out the fire?

nostalgia will kill the good girl.the truth is you should not waste your time on being good.

I don't want to be loved despite my history:I want absolution, someone to observe my fitting-into andgrowing-out-of, someone to watch my spinemake the mannequin come to life.