Quotes from book

Love Is a Dog from Hell

“my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“this time has finished me.”

“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”

“It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.”

“I hope that death contains
less than this.”

“she is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sitting upon a rock
by the ocean
alone and damned.
I could have had
her once. I wonder
if she thinks I
could have
saved her?”

“but right now
it's Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Bob
Dylan all the
way.”

“people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.”

“sometimes I hate you,"
she said.”

“human relationships simply aren't
durable.
I think back to the women in
my life.
they seem non-existent.”

“the history of melancholia
includes all of us.”

“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”

“there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no.”

“stay with the beer.

beer is continuous blood.

a continuous lover.”

“I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.

oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"

she lights her cigarette with
my lighter and looks at me
through the flame:

her eyes tell me.

look," I say, "I don't think I
can ever pay that price again.”