Home / Quotes / Quote by John Bowie

Quote by John Bowie

“And like a fool, here I am again, lapping at the beast’s teats like a true fool, laying my head in the lion’s mouth as I hit it on the arse with a big stick.”

Quote by John Bowie

Book:Untethered

Work

Untethered

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

John Bowie

Browse famous quotes and profile details for John Bowie. more

“Even at such a tender age, I knew that life is lived in leftovers, account ledgers, and timetables rather than in the Platonic sphere of perfect theory. I couldn't float sylphlike around Love Hall in the flowing robes of indeterminacy for the rest of my life, however much I wished there to be no change. I had to accept my responsibilities and, at least in the eyes of the world and at least for the time being, nail my colors to a mast. Unless I wished to appear a strange wonder for the rest of time, caked in circus makeup covering the truth inches beneath, the mast would be male.”

Identity Gender Identity Misfortune Genderfluid Wesley Stace Body Dismorphia

Book:Misfortune

Source: Misfortune

“When the two become the one And the inside outside, the outside in So that the male be not male nor the female female Then will you see me.”

Poetry Sex Gender Misfortune Genderfluid Wesley Stace Gender Indentity

Author:Wesley Stace

“I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. It scabs the wound until the injury is forgotten, but the infection festers, eating away, spreading.”

Relationships Misfortune Wesley Stace

Book:Misfortune

Source: Misfortune

“From the third case, she took yet more books, but these were the traveling books that she had brought for her new ward: they were at once sterner and more reassuring that the others. She cared for for these, too- they were books after all, and she would sooner have her own spine broken than manhandle a book - but not with the same devotion, and they were placed in a neat pile on the floor.”

Book Quotes Misfortune Quotes About Books Love For Books Wesley Stace

Book:Misfortune

Source: Misfortune

“I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?”

Philosophy Misfortune Wesley Stace

Book:Misfortune

Source: Misfortune

“Everything would turn out exactly the same, and I would return here for a second time, and then, if I was fool enough, a third time, waiting, as now, for my other to touch the canvas. And it would be progressively worse, because though I would know slightly more each time, I would still be powerless to change my fate. Perhaps I would be unaware of the previous decision, yet choose again to come back. Or worse, I would become aware that I was inadvertently repeating the same mistake for a horrific split second just after I made the decision. Infinity was terrifying. Its abyss makes my skin crawl.”

Past Infinity Loops Misfortune Paths Of Life Wesley Stace

Book:Misfortune

Source: Misfortune

Quote by John Bowie

Work

Author

You May Also Like