Plead More, Bodymore Quotes

“Cynicism is just a way of evading the truth a little longer.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore

“The stains of so many years of misery make the chair look like it’s a bleeding, rotting corpse all its own. The spot that stands out the most is where his head was when he ate lead the first time. I take another hit from the cigarette, wiping at my eyes. A laugh bubbles out. I thought stains were supposed to fade with age, just like the bad stuff that happens to you, but they don’t. Fifteen years isn’t enough to make blood blend into brown carpets with every other mess?

Bullshit.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore

“And this is how it happens. Someone does something shit to you, makes you suffer, maybe you die, and you get tunnel vision for the revenge you want to feel in your hands—The punishment you believe you deserve to dole out. You come back to find the fucker that ruined your life and you’ll do anything you can to get them back. You can’t see anything else and everyone becomes collateral damage to the pain you have to cause or the justice you have to find. It hurts too much to think of what someone else took from you, that you can’t see anything outside of the future you can’t grasp anymore. Then, when you hurt someone else because your focus is on whoever fucked you up, they come back feeling the same pain, same anger, their future taken from them too and it just keeps going, again and again, over and over, until everyone’s been promised mutual destruction by proximity and nothing else matters.

No one cares about any story that’s not their own. The pain caused is invisible to everyone else until it becomes personal and everyone’s reaching for the thing that blew their lives to pieces. Regret and rage are toxic seeds, planted to consume the heart.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore

“Is that really all there is? Without a body, a soul rots, and during rot, everything that’s left of the person is scrubbed away, right? Until they’re miserable and broken and breaking everything else, fashioning a mirror out of the world around them.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore

“Everything’s an insult when your soul is bankrupt.”
― Ian Kirkpatrick, Plead More, Bodymore