#angela caperton

[talesofpassingtime]

She wasn’t a whore. Sure, she’d thought about it, and once or twice back in Boston, she’d taken money for sex, but that wasn’t the same thing.

Angela Caperton, Barnacle Bill

[talesofpassingtime]

We are gods, all of us. We can be whatever we allow ourselves to be.

Angela Caperton, The Boiling Sea

[talesofpassingtime]

He passed me a fat joint and left me alone, which was more than fine with me.

Angela Caperton, The Boiling Sea

[talesofpassingtime]

The only reality, Thomas, is the one we make of dreams and numbers. Lewis Carroll – Charles Dodgson – had genius for both. He knew how to open the door behind the laughing knob, and I, I am learning how too.

Angela Caperton, The Boiling Sea

[talesofpassingtime]

If you can dance on the sand,” he told them three or four times, “you can dance anywhere. Today you are nothing but a pack of cards. Shuffle and deal, brothers and sisters.

Angela Caperton, The Boiling Sea

[talesofpassingtime]

Stupid,” I grunted. “Magic is lies and tricks.

Angela Caperton, The Boiling Sea

[talesofpassingtime]

That movie was a mindfuck,” Julian said. “All that heavy shit right there in the heads of a whole generation, man. Even Walt Disney couldn’t fuck that up.

Angela Caperton, The Boiling Sea

[talesofpassingtime]

The dancers whirled in a hallucinogenic rainbow, catching Alice and the queen up in their frenzy, spinning them, then all collapsing in a heap as the liquid, psychedelic lights dimmed to blackness absolute; even the exit signs extinguished for a moment.

Angela Caperton, The Boiling Sea