The Gargoyle Quotes

“If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“You are mine,I am yours; you may be sure of this. You've been locked inside my heart, the key has been thrown away; within it, you must always stay. ”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“I am more than my scars.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“... but the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“I spent my entire life waiting for you, Marianne, and I didn't even know it until you arrived. Being burned was the best thing that ever happened to me because it brought you. I wanted to die but you filled me with so much love that it overflowed and I couldn't help but love you back. It happened before I even knew it and now I can't imagine not loving you. You have said that it takes so much for me to believe anything, but I do believe. I believe in your love for me. I believe in my love for you. I believe that every remaining beat of my heart belongs to you, and I believe that when I finally leave this world, my last breath will carry your name. I believe that my final word--Marianne--will be all I need to know that my life was good and full and worthy, and I believe that our love will last forever.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“I once knew a woman who liked to imagine Love in the guise of a sturdy dog, one that would always chase down the stick after it was thrown and return with his ears flopping around happily. Completely loyal, completely unconditional. And I laughed at her, because even I knew that love is not like that. Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyeilding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. ”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“I understand that some people find God after misfortune, although this seems to me even more ridiculous than finding Him in good times. 'God smote me. He must love me.' It's like not wanting a romantic relationship until a member of the opposite sex punches you in the face. My 'miraculous survival' will not change my opinion that Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short, and paradoxically, far too long. ”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Didn't anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune?”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“It doesn't matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“If you’re going through hell, keep going

[as stolen from Winston S. Churchill]”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― Andrew Davidson , The Gargoyle

“My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven. ”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“That which is painful sharpens one's love.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“This is the truth: we all desire to conquer the comely one, because it affirms our own worth. Speaking for the men of the world, we want to own the beauty of the woman we're fucking. We want to grasp that beauty, tightly in our greedy little fingers, to well and truly possess it, to make it ours. We want to do this as the woman shines her way through an orgasm. That's perfection. And while I can't speak for women, I imagine that they-whether they admit it or not-want the same thing: to possess the man, to own his rough handsomeness, if only for a few seconds.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. Yes, that's exactly what love is: a tiny, jittery primate with eyes that are permanently peeled open in fear. For those of you who cannot quite picture a pygmy mouse lemur, imagine a miniature Don Knotts or Steve Buscemi wearing a fur coat.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle