Apocryphal Quotes

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
― Winston Churchill

“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“I don't want to be loved despite my history:
I want absolution, someone to observe my fitting-into and
growing-out-of, someone to watch my spine
make the mannequin come to life.”
― Lisa Marie Basile, APOCRYPHAL

“I am afraid of photographs. I am ashamed they will show
where I really come from. From particles of light, a slow
holding of breath as if I were filling with dirt & I am, because
where I come from is a place outside and it is not normal...”
― Lisa Marie Basile, APOCRYPHAL

“…I am me, but am not
me: I have spent my entire life & all of its suffering
both as spectator & subject. a woman trapped eternally as a
child waiting for the holy father. I look pretty but feel so
young, standing on the curb sucking on the lemon of the
sun.”
― Lisa Marie Basile, APOCRYPHAL

“I don't respect these monsters but I weep anyway.
I curl my fingers in so that my palms bleed,
because I have been afraid of this whole entire life,
of being a pretty little thing.

being a pretty thing
is a problem. no one wants you,

not even the dead.”
― Lisa Marie Basile, APOCRYPHAL

“…I am born and born again.

I am born to represent
the white plain of redemption

to fuck carefully siphoning the blood out of you.

I am reconstructing my body to take in
what you took out, and it fits.”
― Lisa Marie Basile, APOCRYPHAL

“nostalgia will kill the good girl.
the truth is you should not waste your time on being good.”
― Lisa Marie Basile, APOCRYPHAL