Trebor Healey Quotes & Sayings

Even when I wasn't looking for Jimmy, there was a huge empty mouth waiting inside the doors of all those clubs. It was in almost every face, and every heartless electronic song. Just because it beats like one doesn't make it a heart. — Trebor Healey

I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house. — Trebor Healey

Love was actually more like calculus or physics. What was the half-life of love? Did it have cosigns and slopes, or quarks that morphed from wave to particle faster than you could say, please don't leave? — Trebor Healey

How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join? — Trebor Healey

Don't focus on outward means of satisfaction if you want to be happy. — Trebor Healey

Jaded. I never understood the term. Jade is pretty and worth something, yes? I was rusted if I was anything. Too long in the rain. Going out in an orange blaze of muted, anonymous, common-as-dirt oxidation. — Trebor Healey

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity. — Trebor Healey

Everybody has a place. — Trebor Healey

Though it was the Young Men's Christian Association, Paul of Tarsus had little to do with it. The showers were cruisy, and the sauna even more so. — Trebor Healey

I opened the bag and ran my hand through his ashes. He's like an instant universe. Just add a little water, and we'd have a big bang right here. — Trebor Healey

On the third Wednesday of every month I'd visit fat Dr. Pinski, an old demoralized psychiatrist who couldn't have spotted a suicide if the malcontent's errant bullet ricocheted off his desk and grazed him with a flesh wound. And chances are it would be a flesh wound, cuz he was packing. Flesh. Lots of it too. — Trebor Healey

The world is your oyster, they say, so fill it with pearls of semen. — Trebor Healey

The only good soul is a lost soul, and only a lost soul can find its way home. — Trebor Healey

If I were God, it'd be a whole different story, dropping fruit at will. Let them eat apples. — Trebor Healey

Yellowdog, where does sorrow go?"
He held his heart. "Lives here, in each of us. — Trebor Healey

My emotions were like a crowd. Give 'em what they want. Barabbas or the J-man. There's gonna be a crucifixion. Well, more or less. Because if you ask me, purveyor of useless facts, the promise of sex with someone you're starting to like puts you smack dab in the centre of time, history, and the universe itself. Right there in West Oakland no less. The birth of a new religion, and all the madness that ensues. — Trebor Healey

I felt my heart crack slowly like a pomegranate, spilling its seeds. — Trebor Healey