A Horse Named Sorrow Quotes

“I felt my heart crack slowly like a pomegranate, spilling its seeds.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“The world is your oyster, they say, so fill it with pearls of semen.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“The only good soul is a lost soul, and only a lost soul can find its way home.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“If I were God, it’d be a whole different story, dropping fruit at will. Let them eat apples.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join?”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Love was actually more like calculus or physics. What was the half-life of love? Did it have cosigns and slopes, or quarks that morphed from wave to particle faster than you could say, please don’t leave?”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Though it was the Young Men’s Christian Association, Paul of Tarsus had little to do with it. The showers were cruisy, and the sauna even more so.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Everybody has a place.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“I opened the bag and ran my hand through his ashes. He’s like an instant universe. Just add a little water, and we’d have a big bang right here.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“And into the great empty quarter of America I went. Like a bottle of malt liquor or a boy’s asshole, America is. Sing that, Walt Whitman. My country ‘tis of thee … Oh, bountiful.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“C.H.R.I.S.T.I.A.N.I.T.Y.: it’s not so much the thing itself, but the side effects that kill you – the opportunistic infections of misinterpretation and politics – and the parasites that come with it.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Even when I wasn’t looking for Jimmy, there was a huge empty mouth waiting inside the doors of all those clubs. It was in almost every face, and every heartless electronic song. Just because it beats like one doesn’t make it a heart.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Yellowdog, where does sorrow go?”
He held his heart. “Lives here, in each of us.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Which made Lawrence what? – The Prince of Darkness himself? Or just another false prophet? What boyfriend wasn’t in the end?”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Don’t focus on outward means of satisfaction if you want to be happy.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Jaded. I never understood the term. Jade is pretty and worth something, yes? I was rusted if I was anything. Too long in the rain. Going out in an orange blaze of muted, anonymous, common-as-dirt oxidation.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“My emotions were like a crowd. Give ’em what they want. Barabbas or the J-man. There’s gonna be a crucifixion. Well, more or less. Because if you ask me, purveyor of useless facts, the promise of sex with someone you’re starting to like puts you smack dab in the centre of time, history, and the universe itself. Right there in West Oakland no less. The birth of a new religion, and all the madness that ensues.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“Then he looked away, and there followed the nonchalant slow return – and me doing the same – and round in circles it goes: the timeless dance of the sugar plum faeries.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow