{"author":"Kris Kidd","author_id":"Kris+Kidd","total_quotes":66,"quotes":[{"text":"There’s a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["childhood-trauma","depression","eating-disorders"],"id":25225,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"I haven’t felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders,and I haven’t experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I’ve put out into this great bigwhite world.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["embarrassment","guilt","pain"],"id":30858,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"We skip school and we ditch chores. We haunt shopping malls and grocery stores. House parties grow dull, but Amy's boyfriend is a dealer and we find ways to pass the time.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["adolescence","drugs","youth"],"id":40983,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"I drink Coke-zero while I score coke from an honors student in Huntington Beach.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["cocaine","drugs","orange-county"],"id":43764,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"I think it’s pretty common to hold onto people, to bribe them with things, say, a body, in the hopes of keeping them from leaving you. I don’t think it’s uncommon to invert such behaviors, to become something unlovable, in an effort to speed up the process of the inevitable. Fighting is an instinct. So is running. Everybody knows how to destroy a good thing. It’s easy.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["heartbreak","manipulation","self-sabotage"],"id":53743,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"Sometimes, I worry I'm winning.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["addiction","eating-disorders"],"id":55194,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"I think it’s imperative that we continue confusing light with meaning. That’s how the human race evolves. Someone sees a light, names it God, goes toward it, goes up in flames. Same goes for moths. We’re all animals. There’s nothing revolutionary about evolution. The process itself relies solely on stupidity. We fuck up in the hopes that future fuckups will learn from us.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["evolution","light","meaning"],"id":59842,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["memory","repression"],"id":66800,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"Every ghost has a story. Monsters are nothing without mythology.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["ghosts","monsters","mythology"],"id":67220,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"Apathetic in my adolescence,my heart is fluorescent. It flickerslike liquor store lights in the ghetto.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["addiction","adolescence","apathy","youth"],"id":67388,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":66,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}