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1 " Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse. "
― J.T. Lawrence , The Memory of Water
2 " You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel. "
3 " My heart is an empty refrigerator. "
4 " What would Warhol be without his paranoia, Hunter S. Thompson without his Quaaludes, Johnny Cash without his philandering? We Somebodies are not expected to walk the line. "
5 " You’re a taker. And you’ve been taking for a long time. And I think that you can only take so much from the universe before it closes shop. "
6 " The brain abhors a vacuum, and you no longer have that thing to reach for. Yes, you reach for bad memories, even though the experience is unpleasant. It’s like the compulsion to probe a sore tooth with a tongue: it’s difficult to just leave the pain alone. "
― J.T. Lawrence , Sticky Fingers 2 (Sticky Fingers Collection)
7 " sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from "
― J.T. Lawrence , Blood Magic Box Set (Blood Magic #1-6)
8 " The Shelter is a living organism. It will evolve organically as other natural things do, according to what is best for its people. It is not a crowd that needs to be fenced in by petty rules. "
― J.T. Lawrence , Sticky Fingers 3 (Sticky Fingers Collection)
9 " tattoos "
― J.T. Lawrence , Sticky Fingers
10 " While a memory is a mental snapshot of a moment, it carries with it layers of emotion and texture and scent. Your experience will differ to the person who is standing right next to you, and as the moment is imprinted in your brain, it’s coloured by your mood and life experiences. "
11 " What did you say, strange lady at the party with watery eyes and wobbly chin? Science isn’t enough for you? You still think I should just calm the fuck down about it? You still think that if I stopped focussing on my dream of having a baby that my endo would magically disappear and that my ovaries would un-wilt and be so brimming with beautiful, ripe eggs that they would start clapping? Maybe chest-bumping each other? Come closer, cheap-gold crucifix-clutching lady, tell me about that friend-of-a-friend you know that fell pregnant after adopting. And that other friend-of-a-friend, your cousin’s best friend’s father’s sister, that ‘gave up’ and ‘stopped trying,’ only to find that she was pregnant with twins. Come here, strange lady. Put down that chip-and-dip and let me high-five your face. "
― J.T. Lawrence , The Underachieving Ovary
12 " saints are just sinners who keep trying "
13 " You're always trying to stop the bleeding, the relentless flow of blood. "
― J.T. Lawrence , Sticky Fingers 4: A Dozen Deliciously Twisted Short Stories (Sticky Fingers Collection)
14 " Time itself is a gift-curse. Time says: ‘Look here! Here is a precious moment to do something with!’ Then as soon as you try to grasp the moment, it’s gone. And you haven’t done anything. And while you’re thinking about that, there is another moment, and then it too is gone. Cruel, like an eternal game of pass-the-parcel. "
15 " There were horrors deep inside me that were trying to claw their way out, and I was exhausted from keeping them inside. "
16 " Hate is a destructive emotion: like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. "
17 " Damn it, Nick, I’m trying not to swear!” “How’s it going?” “How the bloody—berry blowtorch!—do you think it’s going?!” “Not very well, by the sound of things.” “Well, flock you, Nick. Flock you. "
― J.T. Lawrence , Dasher
18 " Multi-millionaires don’t buy toilet paper in bulk, I laughed. But it turned out that they do. "
19 " Berry! Blazing! Bok choy!” “You sound like you have a unique form of Tourettes. "
20 " If you can’t trust the deep gut / balls combination then you can’t trust anything. The penis, on the other hand, the shaft, is another story altogether. "
