Roller Blade Quotes

AM said it with the sliding cold horror of a razor blade slicing my eyeball. AM said it with the bubbling thickness of my lungs filling with phlegm, drowning me from within. AM said it with the shriek of babies being ground beneath blue-hot rollers. AM said it with the taste of maggoty pork. AM touched me in every way I had ever been touched, and devised new ways, at his leisure, there inside my mind.

The thing about failing as a girl is that I did want to succeed. I wanted to be liked and accepted like anyone, but it wasn't like learning how to play the guitar or to roller-blade. It was something that was always just out of my reach, something I could never really learn to do well, no matter how much I practiced.

A herd of laughing kids zipped by the passenger-side window on Roller-blades. I hoped they never went from laughter to heartache as quickly as I had.

Here’s the whole country, busy replacing vinyl with cassette tapes and CDs and worrying if it’s going to have to go through the whole process again a year or so from now with the new DAT tapes and mini-discs; since the Berlin Wall tumbled last November, millions are poised for the leap into cyberspace, where everything glitters and soars, but nothing dribbles or squishes; the summer is getting into spandex and roller blades; the number of AIDS cases is now within a stone’s throw, one way or the other, of a hundred thousand; awhile ago the Variety had been closed down because, said an article in the Daily News, “158 acts of unsafe sex” had been observed there by a plainclothes inspector over—what?