Kris Kidd Quotes

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Kris Kidd, born on August 2, 1993, is a talented writer known for his unique style and deeply engaging works.

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“I love you. Let's get this over with.”

Love Heartbreak Breakups

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“There are rules you've gotta follow when you fuck to forget. A body's only a temple if and when you treat it like one, but a heart can still break even if you never put it together properly in the first place.”

Loneliness Depression Heartbreak Love Addiction Sex Addiction Body Dysmorphia

Author:Kris Kidd

“I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves. The line between selflessness and selfishness is thin and intangible. It’s imaginary. We can’t see it. People project their problems onto other people’s problems. It happens all the time. We see ourselves in each other. We can’t help it. It’s human nature.”

Heartbreak Selfishness Selflessness Projection

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“I think it’s pretty common to hold onto people, to bribe them with things, say, a body, in the hopes of keeping them from leaving you. I don’t think it’s uncommon to invert such behaviors, to become something unlovable, in an effort to speed up the process of the inevitable. Fighting is an instinct. So is running. Everybody knows how to destroy a good thing. It’s easy.”

Heartbreak Manipulation Self Sabotage

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“Coming down for the thousandth time, I'm perched on the precipice of a billion broken promises. I'm speeding through the intersections of my own broken heartstrings, blowing red lights and ignoring red flags. I'm thinking, 'history repeats itself.' I'm wondering why. The world outside is still happening also.”

Depression Heartbreak Addiction

Author:Kris Kidd

“What if I were to tell you the game’s been rigged, that I was destined to win from the very beginning? To be clear: Winning is subjective. For the record: I win by losing, by avoiding the confusion of possibility, the sheer terror of potential. To make a long story short: I win when I lose and I lose by running, by pushing you away.”

Heartbreak Breakups Self Sabotage

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“It’s so hard not to be fascinated by the broken, to remember that a boy with a sad smile and a pretty face is not the boy that you should fall in love with.”

Love Depression Heartbreak

Book:Down for Whatever

Source: Down for Whatever

“When you’re finally finished crying, I hope you run as fast and as far as you possibly can from me. When you land, out of breath, and I’m finally out of sight, finally out of mind, you’ll be honestly fine. All wounds will be healed. All fires will be extinguished. I’ll be a memory. Feel free to repress me.”

Heartbreak Memory Repression Breakups

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“Another piano falls, but this time it’s me— or my lascivious loneliness, or my grab bag of mental instabilities and emotional shortcomings, or whatever.”

Loneliness Depression Heartbreak Mental Illness

Book:Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

Source: Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

“I’ll be too drunk to fight when you ask why I prefer to hurt, so I’ll start hurling stupid phrases like I love you at your naked chest, but no matter what I try, they’ll all sound like cheap threats.”

Heartbreak Sex And Love Addiction

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“Do you think dogs enjoy fucking? Or is it something so primal, so intrinsically necessary that it just happens, just occurs? Do you think animals can fall in love? I let you fuck me from behind almost every single night, always wanting to be kissed, but still, I refuse to roll over.”

Heartbreak Sex And Love Addiction

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“There are never any real stars in LA, but we’ve got a bunch of fake ones made out of brass and terrazzo. We embed them in the sidewalks outside of strip clubs and gift shops— Walk of Fame, walk of shame… walk of names we’re all destined to forget sooner or later.”

Fame Los Angeles

Author:Kris Kidd

“The homeless dudes on Alameda all have legs any runway model would kill for, and sometimes I think of giving them money, but— I don’t know, I’ve got bills to not pay, and drinks to make people buy for me.”

Poverty Los Angeles Homelessness

Book:I Can't Feel My Face

Source: I Can't Feel My Face

“And then he's somewhere inside of me, each thrust rattling my ribcage like a bottle of pills. I'm somewhere outside of myself, thinking about lust— about my slutty white sheets and all the men who like to hide in them.”

Loneliness Depression Promiscuity Love Addiction Sex Addiction

Author:Kris Kidd

“Two sad eyes and one skanky smile, I practically pulse with the promise of promiscuity. I'm easy to catch, but too slippery to hold onto. Men love a challenge if the prize is guaranteed. I know how to start a fight while deepthroating a white flag.”

Loneliness Depression Promiscuity Love Addiction Sex Addiction

Author:Kris Kidd

“Then I drop to my knees because I can't find a decent enough reason not to, because reluctance rarely stands a chance against repeated behavior.”

Loneliness Depression Trauma Love Addiction Sex Addiction

Author:Kris Kidd

“My desperation is deliberate. Despondency's a pheromone.”

Loneliness Depression Sex Addiction

Author:Kris Kidd

“Every ghost has a story. Monsters are nothing without mythology.”

Mythology Monsters Ghosts

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“...stars are dying all the time. Some explode. Some collapse and cave in on themselves. Those ones become black holes. Others get sucked up inside of them just for getting too close. Guilty by association. Prosecuted for proximity.”

Stars Guilt Astrology Black Holes

Author:Kris Kidd

“You ask yourself when you’ll learn, and the answer is always, “Tomorrow.”

Growing Up Learning Youth Depression

Book:Down for Whatever

Source: Down for Whatever

“I always wanted to be the boy who kiss with his eyes close.”

Kiss

Author:Kris Kidd

“I only hold on so I can let go.”

Letting Go Holding On

Author:Kris Kidd

“Regret, albeit raw and relentless, is almost always unremarkable.”

Regret Depression

Author:Kris Kidd

“Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.”

Past Regret Guilt Drugs

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“I like the way I feel when I’ve got nothing to lose.”

Life Feeling Nothing To Lose

Author:Kris Kidd

“I like people with weak will and bad taste. It feels like anything is possible.”

Possibility Weakness

Book:Down for Whatever

Source: Down for Whatever

“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.”

Childhood Depression Trauma Eating Disorders

Author:Kris Kidd

“I drink Coke-zero while I score coke from an honors student in Huntington Beach.”

Drugs Cocaine Orange County

Book:I Can't Feel My Face

Source: I Can't Feel My Face

“I snort coke and I drink coconut water. I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be.”

Father Poem Absence Cocaine Dealers

Author:Kris Kidd

“My outsides are precise and unreliable. The illusion of self is increasingly purposeful. A sort of erasure. Inside of me, a flex. A fervor. I feel invented.”

Dissociation Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“The self is a smokescreen.”

Dissociation Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“My body’s a battlefield. Victory’s a void filled, a memory vanquished momentarily.”

Repression Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Book:Return to Sender

Source: Return to Sender

“Mac, Phase: everyone here is of the we-don’t-use-real-names-here mentality, so most of the time I feel like a really pilled up Snow White rolling around in the hood with seven drug-dealing dwarves—which, I don’t know… these things are never really as fun as they sound like they’d be.”

Drug Gangs Drug Dealer

Author:Kris Kidd

“February falls on top of me like a cartoon piano. I reek of champagne, come, and CK One.”

Depression Substance Abuse Sex Addiction

Book:Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

Source: Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex

“An alternate version of me lives in every choice I didn’t make. A better version of me lives on the other side of my mistakes.”

Self Mistakes Version

Author:Kris Kidd

“Apathetic in my adolescence, my heart is fluorescent. It flickers like liquor store lights in the ghetto.”

Youth Addiction Apathy Adolescence

Book:Down for Whatever

Source: Down for Whatever

“In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people.”

People Percent Los Angeles

Author:Kris Kidd

“Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.”

Kind Different Hard Fall Lines Vision Summer Spring Seasons Eternity Winter Track Stuck Repeats Los Angeles Blur Spring Summer Fall And Winter

Author:Kris Kidd

“And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.”

Ifs I Can Sometimes Helping Honest Missing Sweet Drug Hot Boxes Being Honest Hops Weed Warmth Fence Old Fashioned Gateways Sticky

Author:Kris Kidd

“The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.”

Two Seems Culture Mayhem Idyllic Two Cultures

Author:Kris Kidd

“A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.”

Crowds Bones Bags Cracks Slips

Author:Kris Kidd

“What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project.”

Wells Numbers Involved Skills Projects Unique Available Priorities Combination Clients Duration Craftsmanship Top Priorities

Author:Kris Kidd

“See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.”

People Knows Art Feelings Rooms Lonely Feeling Lonely

Author:Kris Kidd

About the Author

Born: August 2, 1993
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 43

Books & Sources

Return to SenderRelated source material

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I Can't Feel My FaceRelated source material

Split Lips: Stories About Love & SexRelated source material

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