“I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.” PeopleIfsThinkingMindMayCareCertainHurtHairReaderAmountPleaseElementsDressesSafetyBlueSticksSurpriseNosesShockPinsTeaseSafety Pins Author:John Ashbery
“He will come with a mouth full of forevers and skin as sweet as spring time. He will kiss the places that hurt and will tell you the scars are beautiful. He will cover every inch of you in words he's learned and dress you in the colors of every season and he will not be the one. He will feel like a hurricane and you'll wonder how you will ever recover and rebuild. But you will. You always will. And you'll realize he is not the one.” FeelsBeautifulRealizingHurtWonderColorSweetKissingSpringMouthsSkinsSeasonsDressesScarInchesHurricanesSpring Time Author:Tyler Kent
“If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween... don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.” IfsHumorFunnyHurtAdultsDressesPlanningHalloween Author:Lewis Black
“You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)” KnowsShouldMeanArtHurtLike YouBirthFitDressesQuittingChessImmortalityBreastsMuseumsPillsBirth ControlPlaying ChessRetrospectiveBirth Control PillsPasadena Author:Eve Babitz