Patricia Gaffney famous quotes

I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Body #Numb #Drink

You were the best thing in my life … I did love you. I do. As much as I’ve ever loved anyone, as much as I can. It feels like a lot – it takes up my whole heart.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Love You #Heart #Feels

I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Hate #Punishment #Hell

Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Book #Moon #Simple

Misery alternates with euphoria.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Misery #Euphoria

What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Love #Mean #Effort

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Men #People #Topics

I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Thinking #Would Be #Easier

... laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex.
-- Patricia Gaffney

#Sex #Laughter #Real

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.

It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.