Patricia Lockwood Quotes

#1. Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place.

Colette Baron Reid

#2. See men for miles around give nature what she needs,
rivers and rivers and rivers of it. You exhale with perfect
happiness. Nature turned you down in high school.
Now you can come in her eye.

Patricia Lockwood

#3. I fuckin eat silence of crickets for fun. I got life after
life and a name like Baby. Every time I try to cry a tear
a new kittenhead grows out of me.

Patricia Lockwood

#4. And all of a sudden I saw that if life seems awfully petty most of the time, every now and then there is something noble and beautiful and almost pure that lifts us suddenly out of the pettiness and lets us share in it a little.

Laurence Yep

#5. Whenever someone says the word "month" to me, I call up an empty square filled with other empty squares, days, and hours and minutes, bricks on bricks spiraling inward, pinwheel and diamond, and herringbone patterns marching smaller and smaller to some vanishing point.

Patricia Lockwood

#6. He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man on earth.

Patricia Lockwood

#7. There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.

Patricia Lockwood

#8. As they perform this ritual, I almost have to turn away, thinking again what a boomeranging, out-of-body experience it is to watch a religious childhood from the outside, when before I was in the very marrow of it.

Patricia Lockwood

#9. Sometimes I have thought I was lonely and it turned out I was in reality wanting a snack, just like sometimes I have thought I was mad and it turned out I was actually wearing too many sweaters.

Patricia Lockwood

#10. The half of her that is underwater would like to be
under a desk, the head of her that is underwater
would like to be fully immersed.

Patricia Lockwood

#11. I simply ate a fish-head, but fish-heads won't fill
me now. Your attention is a fish-head,
so throw it back into my new body, back
into the body climbing the stairs.

Patricia Lockwood

#12. I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.

Guillermo Del Toro

#13. God's will can go fuck itself. And so can you.

Jason Aaron

#14. First tweet, best tweet, I always think. I try not to work them too much or else they get Pie Dough Disease, which is where the dough has been to too much college and doesn't understand that it is dough anymore and refuses to be shaped. Pie Dough Disease! Poems get that too.

Patricia Lockwood

#15. Most letters were love letters until they were not.

Patricia Lockwood

#16. Part of what you have to figure out in this life is, Who would I be if I hadn't been frightened? What hurt me, and what would I be if it hadn't? Next

Patricia Lockwood

#17. All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

Nonito Donaire

#18. I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.

Patricia Lockwood

#19. How do god fit him ass in them jeans when he is, in fact, Everywhere

Patricia Lockwood

#20. IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

Andrei Tarkovsky