Top 40 Kris Kidd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I love you. Let’s get this over with.”

— Kris Kidd

2. “I like the way I feel when I’ve got nothing to lose.”

— Kris Kidd

3. “Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you.”

— Kris Kidd

4. “Two sad eyes and one skanky smile, I practically pulse with the promise of promiscuity. I’m easy to catch, but too slippery to hold onto. Men love a challenge if the prize is guaranteed. I know how to start a fight while deepthroating a white flag.”

— Kris Kidd

5. “I think of drug dealers like I think of my father – never really there when you want them to be.”

— Kris Kidd

6. “Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.”

— Kris Kidd

7. “I just want to get away from me.”

— Kris Kidd

8. “I’ve come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.”

— Kris Kidd

9. “My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father.”

— Kris Kidd

10. “I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves. The line between selflessness and selfishness is thin and intangible. It’s imaginary. We can’t see it. People project their problems onto other people’s problems. It happens all the time. We see ourselves in each other. We can’t help it. It’s human nature.”

— Kris Kidd

11. “The self is a smokescreen.”

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12. “My body’s a battlefield. Victory’s a void filled, a memory vanquished momentarily.”

— Kris Kidd

13. “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.”

— Kris Kidd

14. “I dye my jeans jet black once a week, but they never seem dark enough. I bleach my hair bright white twice a month but it never seems light enough. I drink two and a half bottles of champagne every night but I never seem drunk enough. And I know I’m not high enough until someone grabs my face to check my vision to see if I’m still responsive – And even then, I’m thinking to myself that I should probably do one more line, you know, just to be safe.”

— Kris Kidd

15. “Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier said than done.”

— Kris Kidd

16. “A drop in the bucket, a tear in the ocean, you’ve been treading cold water, memorizing the motion just to stay afloat.”

— Kris Kidd

17. “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.”

— Kris Kidd

18. “What if I were to tell you the game’s been rigged, that I was destined to win from the very beginning? To be clear: Winning is subjective. For the record: I win by losing, by avoiding the confusion of possibility, the sheer terror of potential. To make a long story short: I win when I lose and I lose by running, by pushing you away.”

— Kris Kidd

19. “Crashing through windows I thought were open doors. Apologizing for the mess. Rationalizing my behavior in metaphors you’ll simply never understand. Learning to accept defeat. Watching you walk away from me, from us, from all of this, using every door I missed. Begging, “Please don’t leave me now, I killed those boys to make you love me.”

— Kris Kidd

20. “Standing in the spotlight, surrounded by all my selves, each of them naked and vulnerable before your lens, I want to be split open and reminded of shame. I know that sounds selfish, but I’m allowed to be selfish ’cause we’re talking about photography. Do you honestly believe I don’t see it for what it actually is: Exploitative? Exploitation is the nature of the beast, whatever the hell that means.”

— Kris Kidd

21. “I only hold on so I can let go.”

— Kris Kidd

22. “When you’re finally finished crying, I hope you run as fast and as far as you possibly can from me. When you land, out of breath, and I’m finally out of sight, finally out of mind, you’ll be honestly fine. All wounds will be healed. All fires will be extinguished. I’ll be a memory. Feel free to repress me.”

— Kris Kidd

23. “In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.”

— Kris Kidd

24. “It’s so hard not to be fascinated by the broken, to remember that a boy with a sad smile and a pretty face is not the boy that you should fall in love with.”

— Kris Kidd

25. “I talk too much, but there’s a lot unsaid. I’ve slept in a lot of beds.”

— Kris Kidd

26. “I always wanted to be the boy who kiss with his eyes close.”

— Kris Kidd

27. “In the soft light of morning, the sky outside turning light blue, my answer is always and still: “I’m fine.”

— Kris Kidd

28. “They say you can’t build Rome in a day, but I’m pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.”

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29. “Sometimes, I worry I’m winning.”

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30. “I’ve memorized the best angles in the bathroom mirror from which to see how badly I’ve disintegrated. I truly do go from sixty to zero.”

— Kris Kidd

31. “I have this working theory that the main cause of traffic after a car accident is rarely the accident itself. I think people just slow down to get a closer look at the wreckage.”

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32. “I want to know exactly how many pieces of myself I had to give away before I became something else entirely.”

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33. “Coming down for the thousandth time, I’m perched on the precipice of a billion broken promises. I’m speeding through the intersections of my own broken heartstrings, blowing red lights and ignoring red flags. I’m thinking, ‘history repeats itself.’ I’m wondering why. The world outside is still happening also.”

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34. “My desperation is deliberate. Despondency’s a pheromone.”

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35. “And I guess at the end of the day, you’re just amazed that I can still stand, and I’m just amazed that I can stand still.”

— Kris Kidd

36. “I know it sounds a bit trite, but I really do get everything I want now. They say life is a game, and I guess I might agree if the stakes were a little higher, but it’s just so easy to fall into a cycle. I get bored.”

— Kris Kidd

37. “Get rid of me, I get it.”

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38. “I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.”

— Kris Kidd

39. “Then I drop to my knees because I can’t find a decent enough reason not to, because reluctance rarely stands a chance against repeated behavior.”

— Kris Kidd

40. “The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There’s an ethics to projection, an unhinged sense of honesty. Honesty is complicated. The truth is fascinatingly flexible. Lying is boundless. It knows no limits. People lie all the time. Lying is an instinct. It’s human nature. We lie to each other; we lie to ourselves. It isn’t right, but we do.”

— Kris Kidd

41. “My blood makes noise. And I’m saying this now, because I have a strange gut feeling that it will be silenced someday soon.”

— Kris Kidd

42. “February falls on top of me like a cartoon piano. I reek of champagne, come, and CK One.”

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43. “I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves.”

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44. “Everywhere I go, I kind of half stumble, half stomp. If there’s a balcony within a hundred feet of me at any given time, I am on it – smoking a Marlboro light 100 and complaining about something.”

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45. “I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.”

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46. “My outsides are precise and unreliable. The illusion of self is increasingly purposeful. A sort of erasure. Inside of me, a flex. A fervor. I feel invented.”

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47. “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.”

— Kris Kidd