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Top 25 Joshua Gaylord Quotes (2025 Update)

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “It’s funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.”

1. “It’s funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “And so masters and slaves are nothing but the turn of a card.”

2. “And so masters and slaves are nothing but the turn of a card.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “I was naked in the woods. It was a beautiful outrage.”

3. “I was naked in the woods. It was a beautiful outrage.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “Her smile was something I couldn’t describe, except to say that it seemed to be queenly in the way that queens remind you of situations grander than your own puny life could conceive.”

4. “Her smile was something I couldn’t describe, except to say that it seemed to be queenly in the way that queens remind you of situations grander than your own puny life could conceive.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “We are always told that honesty and truth are the shining ideals. But sometimes the truth could be used as a punishment.”

5. “We are always told that honesty and truth are the shining ideals. But sometimes the truth could be used as a punishment.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.”

6. “Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “On certain days in the spring, in late April, say, it is possible to believe what the animals believe -that horror and beauty are hearty allies, and that when you live in the full roiling of your guts it’s impossible to make distinctions between them.”

7. “On certain days in the spring, in late April, say, it is possible to believe what the animals believe -that horror and beauty are hearty allies, and that when you live in the full roiling of your guts it’s impossible to make distinctions between them.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves.”

8. “Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves.”

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Joshua Gaylord Quote: “There were so many beautiful, dark, and lonely ways in the sunken corridors of adolescence – how did everyone else manage to make it through without a map? Were they not tempted, as I was, to linger?”

9. “There were so many beautiful, dark, and lonely ways in the sunken corridors of adolescence – how did everyone else manage to make it through without a map? Were they not tempted, as I was, to linger?”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “We all have stories to tell. Our demons are sunk deep under our skin, and maybe we use stories to exorcise them – or at least know them truly.”

10. “We all have stories to tell. Our demons are sunk deep under our skin, and maybe we use stories to exorcise them – or at least know them truly.”

— Joshua Gaylord

$Joshua Gaylord Quote: “We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.”$

11. “We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “It is always a young girl’s dream to have a boy believe in her most colorful fantasies. You paint landscapes with your humble heart, then you seek to populate them with boys who will understand.”

12. “It is always a young girl’s dream to have a boy believe in her most colorful fantasies. You paint landscapes with your humble heart, then you seek to populate them with boys who will understand.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.”

13. “I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “Girls, boys, it made no difference. you were skin and they were skin, and you buried yourself in the skin of others as they buried themselves in yours. Some of them cried and some of them howled – and whether the crying and howling was pain or pleasure, you couldn’t tell, and maybe they couldn’t either. Such are the ambiguities of primal youth.”

14. “Girls, boys, it made no difference. you were skin and they were skin, and you buried yourself in the skin of others as they buried themselves in yours. Some of them cried and some of them howled – and whether the crying and howling was pain or pleasure, you couldn’t tell, and maybe they couldn’t either. Such are the ambiguities of primal youth.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “I liked the rows of unpopulated seats staring at me, their lower halves all folded up except one on the aisle that was broken and remained always open, a poor busted tooth in that grinning mouth. There is nothing to fear in such cavernous and sepulchral spaces. You fill them with the riots of your imagination.”

15. “I liked the rows of unpopulated seats staring at me, their lower halves all folded up except one on the aisle that was broken and remained always open, a poor busted tooth in that grinning mouth. There is nothing to fear in such cavernous and sepulchral spaces. You fill them with the riots of your imagination.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “I smeared honey on my chest, believing it might help me grown breasts. Honeybees are industrious – they can build anything.”

16. “I smeared honey on my chest, believing it might help me grown breasts. Honeybees are industrious – they can build anything.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “I thought it must be difficult for him, for boys. They get temperamental when they can’t shape the world into what they want it to be. It’s easier for girls. Girls are raised knowing that the world is unshapable. So they know better than to fuss.”

17. “I thought it must be difficult for him, for boys. They get temperamental when they can’t shape the world into what they want it to be. It’s easier for girls. Girls are raised knowing that the world is unshapable. So they know better than to fuss.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “I knew the schedule. I liked to know in advance where people would be and where they wouldn’t be.”

18. “I knew the schedule. I liked to know in advance where people would be and where they wouldn’t be.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “It was a holy night. I ran. My father slept soundly in his bed, somewhere far behind me, and I ran. Elsewhere in the world masses were being performed and stock was being taken of the glories and retreats of life – and it was nothing to me, because I ran. I was naked in the woods. It was a beautiful outrage.”

19. “It was a holy night. I ran. My father slept soundly in his bed, somewhere far behind me, and I ran. Elsewhere in the world masses were being performed and stock was being taken of the glories and retreats of life – and it was nothing to me, because I ran. I was naked in the woods. It was a beautiful outrage.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “It would be different now, I thought. His colleagues, they would not know what to say to me now that I had grown into a young woman. People fear those curious interstitial creatures who are neither children nor adults.”

20. “It would be different now, I thought. His colleagues, they would not know what to say to me now that I had grown into a young woman. People fear those curious interstitial creatures who are neither children nor adults.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “I could draw maps of your skin – all of you. I have often, without your knowing it, traveled the topographies of your flesh. You were brilliant in the moonlight, and I remember you all.”

21. “I could draw maps of your skin – all of you. I have often, without your knowing it, traveled the topographies of your flesh. You were brilliant in the moonlight, and I remember you all.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “I had started running in order to escape Rose Lincoln and her pack. Then I was running to put things decidedly being me, to seek lovely new emptinesses. Then I ran to outpace the nagging of my ticklish brain. Then I just ran.”

22. “I had started running in order to escape Rose Lincoln and her pack. Then I was running to put things decidedly being me, to seek lovely new emptinesses. Then I ran to outpace the nagging of my ticklish brain. Then I just ran.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “You cannot always understand boys, the things they do. They act, sometimes, as though in thrall to severe but natural forces. They can be waterfalls or wind gusts.”

23. “You cannot always understand boys, the things they do. They act, sometimes, as though in thrall to severe but natural forces. They can be waterfalls or wind gusts.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “Rather than simply being subject to them, I had wanted to know what it felt like to be one of the forces in this world.”

24. “Rather than simply being subject to them, I had wanted to know what it felt like to be one of the forces in this world.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “The way he was looking at me made me wonder if he was talking about something other than god. Or if maybe god and the way he looked at me with those voracious boy-eyes were related. I wanted more of it. His boy-eyes, his godliness, which I felt deep down, like a surge.”

25. “The way he was looking at me made me wonder if he was talking about something other than god. Or if maybe god and the way he looked at me with those voracious boy-eyes were related. I wanted more of it. His boy-eyes, his godliness, which I felt deep down, like a surge.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “They don’t hurt anybody. Except maybe themselves. And each other.”

26. “They don’t hurt anybody. Except maybe themselves. And each other.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “You have to put Lumen in the lake and see how still she stands, skimming the surface with her pale palms, embarrassed at the flatness of her own chest, noiseless and inert amid the raucous clamor of other boys and girls.”

27. “You have to put Lumen in the lake and see how still she stands, skimming the surface with her pale palms, embarrassed at the flatness of her own chest, noiseless and inert amid the raucous clamor of other boys and girls.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “Lumen. There was Lumen, and there was the places people did not go. And Lumen would go to those places. She would leap over denies and crawl through mud. She would climb up on rooftops and call crazy with every little branch of her lungs.”

28. “Lumen. There was Lumen, and there was the places people did not go. And Lumen would go to those places. She would leap over denies and crawl through mud. She would climb up on rooftops and call crazy with every little branch of her lungs.”

— Joshua Gaylord

Joshua Gaylord Quote: “A big bubble. A block wide. It goes where you go – you’re the center of it. And every object gets a little bit better while it’s in that bubble with you. It’s always very bright where you are.”

29. “A big bubble. A block wide. It goes where you go – you’re the center of it. And every object gets a little bit better while it’s in that bubble with you. It’s always very bright where you are.”

— Joshua Gaylord

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