Ashleigh Giannoccaro > Quotes

“Perhaps God had made a deal with the devil the day I was born. Freedom won’t find me.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“Broken things are never whole, shattered pieces cannot be replaced. One is always missing.”
― Ashleigh Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“So, I live in my filthy one bedroom apartment and fuck the whores that crawl the streets of Hunts Point.  I am the Goodbye Man.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“Readers, please note that this tale has graphic depiction of abuse including but not limited to; rape, physical torture, emotional abuse, murder, strong language, sexual degradation and humiliation, unconventional sexual practices, and detailed descriptions of several mental disorders.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“bend down to the pale face of the girl with no name and only a number and I whisper in her ear, “Goodbye,” before they whip her through the giant electronic doors and to her early grave. No one lives forever, but cutting her life short just made some others longer. Now to replace her.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“Hope is a made up word for those that want something to believe in, when the fact of the matter is, we are all fucking crazy.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“The clown had the power because she feared him, yet she wanted him at the same time. I saw the terrified desire in her eyes and craved that power, that ability. All my life I have tried to replicate it. To get that moment back even if it wasn’t my moment to have.”
― A. Giannoccaro, Cirque: Act I

“I am not the worst thing that can happen to you, but I will be the last.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“My magic is lost and the rest of the show is done without feeling. I go through the carefully rehearsed paces and get to final curtain. When it falls closed I have the sudden urge to cry, but I hold it back and leave the stage with a strange regret, and the feeling you get when the kid on the playground says they don’t want to be your friend anymore.”
― A. Giannoccaro, Cirque: Act I

“I don’t hurt people. I am a voyeur of pain,”
― A Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“Choices will always come back to punish us, and I chose so very wrong.”
― Ashleigh Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“If the devil was a human I suspect this is exactly how he would look; beautifully dark.”
― A. Giannoccaro, 28 Boys

“Kill them with kindness, slay them with a smile and murder them with a kiss.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“You. Will. Never. Fucking. Whisper. Again.” His words were like snow and lava together, a deadly combination that had me craving more, yet fearful for the next.”
― Ashleigh Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Girl

“His hands rub my scabbed nipples, yet they still respond to his touch. I am fucked up because part of me craves it.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“The love that I want, doesn’t want me.”
― Ashleigh Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Girl

“Beneath my transgressions is a person, a man, and at the moment my heart beats for you and your little family. I don’t have anything else to fucking live for.”
― A. Giannoccaro, 28 Boys

“This impression of freedom is false, and I long for the security of the regimented life inside the walls that held me.”
― A. Giannoccaro, 28 Boys

“The devils from inside the prison live in his hollow eyes. They all come home like that. Empty and lost. That’s why they all go back.”
― A. Giannoccaro, 28 Boys

“There is no room for mistakes, yet they take up so much room.”
― Ashleigh Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“He danced and he played before pressing the knife to her vein. After her life was taken, he laid next to her knowing she couldn’t be shaken. Death was his friend because it would never leave. He could love the dead ones, too.”
― A. Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man

“Wounds may heal, but memories will never be forgotten”
― Ashleigh Giannoccaro, The Goodbye Man