“She was like a puppy. She was like.. love me, love me, love me.. and I did. I did right away. She was my lover. The only person I really loved.”
“I have to go back to work! I know what you’re going to say, but I need the money because I cannot live like this. I cannot live like this and I cannot live without you.”
“I could learn photography. That could be something to want. I could photograph children. I could have my own children. I would give them yellow roses, and if they got too loud, I would just put them some place quiet. Put them in the oven. And I would kiss them every day and tell them, ‘you don’t have to be anybody’. because i would know that being somebody doesn’t make you anybody anyway.”
“You were the one. You were the only one, and you were amazing.”
“Life and death, energy and peace. If I stopped today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I have made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul. It was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked. Which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it and above..” - Gia Marie Carangi