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Jesus’ Son QUOTES

Jesus’ Son QUOTES

1 " Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

2 " The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

3 " When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

4 " The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

5 " I knew every raindrop by its name. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

6 " And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

7 " Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

8 " All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

9 " With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

10 " We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

11 " Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

12 " And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

13 " There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

14 " Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference? "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

15 " How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

16 " There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

17 " Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

18 " I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

19 " That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it? "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son

20 " Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us. "

― Denis Johnson , Jesus’ Son