“Yer skirt invites a man’s attention. I’ve seen handkerchiefs that were bigger.”
She swung her handbag over her shoulder. “At least I wear underwear under my skirt.”
“I hope they’re nice since everyone is sure to see them.”
Source: All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire
“I thought I saw a puddy tat.”
He grinned. “You did, you did.”
Source: All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire
“this place ain't so tough . . . I can beat up 1/2 the girls in here”
“Early bird gets the worm. But the worm eats the early bird from inside. Slithering out to the sidewalk to melt beneath the sun.”
Source: Welcome to the Idiot Box: Stories, Essays, Self-Help Wisdom
“Sometimes you stay in a budget motel/cabin/hotel to save money, sometimes they’re the only thing available. If you find yourself in a room with questionable bedding and towels with nowhere else to go, fear not!
Whether I pack my camping gear or not, I always travel with a bamboo sleeping sack (sometimes called a “sleeping bag liner”). It packs up to the size of a Chipotle burrito and protects you from scratchy sheets (among other hazards). Bamboo is one of the most comfortable fibers on the market, and is hypoallergenic, antimicrobial and antibacterial.”
Source: Hit The Road: A Woman's Guide to Solo Motorcycle Touring
“I awoke from this nightmare into a freezing cold motel room: the heater had broken at some point during the night, and the fan was now blowing icy air into the room.
At first I tried to keep warm under the crappy motel bedspread by thinking about the man I loved. At the time he was traveling in Europe, and was thus unreachable. I didn't know it yet, but as I lay there, he was traveling with another woman. Does it matter now? I tried hard to feel his body wrapped tightly around mine.
Next I tried to imagine everyone I had ever loved, and everyone who had ever loved me, wrapped around me. I tried to feel that I was the composite of all these people, instead of alone in a shitty motel room with a broken heater somewhere outside of Detroit, a few miles from where Jane's body was dumped thirty-six years ago on a March night just like this one.
'Need each other as much as you can bear,' writes Eileen Myles. 'Everywhere you go in the world.'
I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.
Of this latter I felt less sure, but it seemed possible, if the equation worked both ways.
Falling asleep I thought, 'Maybe this, for me, is the hand of God.”
Source: The Red Parts
“I once read a story by this guy named Harlan Ellison ending: That night it rained, everywhere in the known universe. I was never too sure what the ending meant in terms of Ellison's story, but anyone who sits alone in a motel room for hours, watching the rain wash the world away, begins to understand. Knows what it feels like.”
Source: Death Will Have Your Eyes
“Love that meets at the level of soul does not count the years;
it writes them into eternity with every shared breath.”
Source: Lovemance: A Manifesto of Transformative Love and Spiritual Feminist Literature
“In a lovemance, two hearts do not merely meet;
they remember the promise they made before birth.”
Source: Lovemance: A Manifesto of Transformative Love and Spiritual Feminist Literature
“A lovemance is not bound by endings;
it keeps unfolding wherever the soul keeps growing.”
Source: Lovemance: A Manifesto of Transformative Love and Spiritual Feminist Literature