Will Christopher Baer Quotes & Sayings

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain. — Will Christopher Baer

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction. — Will Christopher Baer

He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop. — Will Christopher Baer

The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet. — Will Christopher Baer

All superheroes had pretty much the same problem. Batman was flash and sexy compared to Bruce Wayne and even Robin was a lot cooler than Dick Grayson. As for Superman, well. It was a fucking miracle that Clark Kent had never committed suicide. — Will Christopher Baer

It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away. — Will Christopher Baer

I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. It's a appropriate, I think. And still I feel worthless. I want to comfort her, to chase her fears into the snow. But sympathy is buried in me, like a stone in the belly of a goat. And the goat is the rare animal that will eat garbage. I hold her hand until she falls asleep, then steal fifty dollars from her purse. — Will Christopher Baer

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money. — Will Christopher Baer

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one. Kiss Me Judas — Will Christopher Baer

Men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn't tolerate pain well. — Will Christopher Baer

I'm going to kill Jude this afternoon for fun, then eat my own putrid kidney for dinner. — Will Christopher Baer

Multiple personalities. Don't freak out but I'm pretty sure I have them. Not a clinical thing, not a disease. But a distraction to be sure. There are maybe six or seven pretty concrete versions of myself knocking around in here and I mean it gets fucking crowded when everybody is drunk or talking at once. — Will Christopher Baer

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself. — Will Christopher Baer

Monogamy doesn't work unless it rises up from the bones. Because it promises nothing but fear and tension when forced on you. It fills you up with despair where there might be joy. It shoves guilt and paranoia and self-loathing down your throat, if you don't truly want it. — Will Christopher Baer

They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face. — Will Christopher Baer

Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?
I try to smile. What's the difference, really. — Will Christopher Baer

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot. — Will Christopher Baer

Disappear, she says. I love that word. — Will Christopher Baer

Arms and legs thrashing. The hammer of blood.
I'm coming, says Jude.
And holds her breath. Orgasm is brief, nonviolent.
What color? I say
Devastating blue, she says. The pale blue eyes of a murdered boy.
Very nice.
You remembered, she says.
Jude comes in colors. How could I forget. Trembling blond orgasms that seem to piss her off and rare pink orgasms that never end. Chemical red orgasms that fill her with guilt and perfect orgasms black as fresh earth. Orgasms shadowy and gray that may or may not cause her to weep and orgasms the color of bruised skin, orgasms that fade from purple to yellow and remain visible for days. — Will Christopher Baer

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop. — Will Christopher Baer

I'm cold, Religiously cold. — Will Christopher Baer

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars. — Will Christopher Baer

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you. — Will Christopher Baer

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood. — Will Christopher Baer