Sue William Silverman > Quotes

“I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.”
― Sue William Silverman, Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction

“The Three Fates
When You Go

Your bathmat dries
Snow drifts from the sky filling empty shoe prints
Memories are frayed lace
Love singes in August
Sugar hardens, Flour writhes with weevils
The mail that arrives through the door slot - circulars, postcards, pleas for your support - piles up, unforwardable.”
― Sue William Silverman, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

“Death is death any way you encounter it. Still, why did Elvis hasten his? Maybe Graceland, while appearing to be his sanctuary, wasn't. Maybe he should have run away from home. He had so much. But maybe the wealth and fame of "much" was, in fact, to "little." Or the wrong king of "much," as reflected in this tacky trademarked shrine to his life.”
― Sue William Silverman, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

“Okay, Jeffrey Dahmer is not exactly god but also not exactly human. He pushed addiction to the nth degree and beyond. He stalked straight out of Normal, left it behind, and entered his own State of Being with his own merciless theology.”
― Sue William Silverman, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

“If you do this to me, I will write about it.”
― Sue William Silverman, Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul

“A guy at the intersection of juvenile delinquency and ruin slouches over offering beer and a jaundiced smile. I smile back. My crush on him is immediate and hard.”
― Sue William Silverman, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences