Quotes From "White Wedding Lies And Discontent: An American Love Story" By Phil Volatile

And somewhereout there, in the river ofaddicts, alcoholics, wife beaters, doormats, overeducated legalized thieves, fascist police, and bitter rivalries–someone told meit’s a good city, and I don’t knowwhat’s more frightening Phil Volatile

I’m in love with my corporate girlfriend, with the Cyclops heart Phil Volatile

When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts. Phil Volatile

What simple andordinary lives we live, underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists Phil Volatile

Love, is a Bloody Razor BladeLove came like fire from aboveand disappeared like a wet dream, underneath a leaky kitchen sink For weeks it went drip, drip, drip…until it could be, eventually fixed It took a long time to depreciateall the things I never had to say But there are only so many things that make sense at the end The rest is merely X-Acto knife love, and Love, is a bloody razor blade Phil Volatile

I can remember whendelusions of grandeur entailed wanting tobe a rock star, movie star, a millionaire; to make itas a writer–now it seems that it’sto want to earn adecent living Phil Volatile

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of weight Phil Volatile

Too many codeine pills, Too many nights of cold chills Too many weak-handed deals Too many lives, the addict steals Phil Volatile

I pawned the remote to my misery, trading it in for liquor that was cheap;screwdrivers for my vitamin c, and a little bloodstream to my IV, helping to soothe my lunacy Phil Volatile

America–where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man Phil Volatile