Wurth Quotes

How many crumpets, at a sittin', do you think 'ud kill me off at once?" says the patient. "I don't know," says the doctor. "Do you think half-a-crown's wurth 'ud do it?" says the patient. "I think it might," says the doctor.

What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and there in the company of other insomniac souls we would look out at the vast expanse of lights and glamour. We watched the towers as they climbed higher, and higher, as humanity reached for the skies.

I believe in the full return of all so-called American lands to its original peoples. Let us be the stewards of the earth that holds the bones of our ancestors, and the seeds of our future ancestors.

What was it with married people, especially ones with kids? They always thought they had it harder than everyone else, and they always thought that having kids meant they were doing something heroic.

Behind me, I could hear the lip ring kid whisper, “God, your ass is hot.” I turned around and looked him dead in the eye. “This ass will cut you if you don’t shut the fuck up.” He closed his eyes and bit his lip. I thought I heard a short moan escape. Jesus Christ.

This life, all of it, led to madness.

I am healed. But I don't realize that healing requires scars, and I am still rough beneath them, I still have pain locked behind that ropy skin. And there is weakness there, there is vulnerability, a thing I have always been terrified of. A thing that has festered. A thing that can take me down into the dark. And feed. And feed.

I thought of my mother, her life taken by a man who, if not a literal beast nonetheless, someone shaped by the shape of someone else's pain, who only knew to take that pain and try to give it to someone else, thinking it would take the pain away from himself.

God, I had hope a minute ago, but now I feel so empty (...) I wish I could cry, but I can't, I'm broken that way. Just fucking broken, like a clock on the wall. Stopped in time.