Цитаты из книги «Куда она ушла», страница 14

I would change if I could, but so far, ordering myself to shut up and enjoy the ride hasn't much of an impact.

The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bed

Whispers in my ear: “Better off dead.”

Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret

Kisses me gently when I wake up in a sweat.

“Boo!”

Collateral Damage, track 3

Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one - and had no idea what to do with it?

I'm that dog.

A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

From that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant.

And I'm the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.

I neeble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I've done that. All by myself. All to myself.

People's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

Rumors, even true ones, are like flames: stifle the oxygen and they sputter and die.

Needle and thread, flesh and bone

Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home

Your suture lines sparkle like diamonds

Bright stars to light my confinement“stitch”

collateral damage, track 7

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue

Sent to the factory, just like me and like you

So how come they stayed your execution?

The audience roars its standing ovation“dust”

Collateral Damage, track 9

I’ll be your mess, you be mine

That was the deal that we had signed

I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste

Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe

But now I’m alone in an empty room

Staring down immaculate doom“messy”

collateral damage, track 2