"Rapt, in "Star Wars" sheets, with my hand across your belly, we waded through the watercolor. And drunk in your parents house, junk coming out of your mouth, we were buried in the ice sculpture, and you said "I would be anything that you wanted me to be...but how could I change my body?""

"Her stinging eyes, and her sixteen-hour drive, and our shared, transparent rope, and our icy dive through hope I'll memorise, and I'll cut into my mind."

"Ooh, murderess, in the wilderness, with your victims all around you, their combined love forms a pool your knife’s reflected in. Now I’m ready, too, with my throat to you, on this island, by this moon. What I want the most to do is show I’m not like them."

"And I really do think that there’s probably more good than anger or selfishness, sickness, or sadness would ever completely allow us to have in this life, I think I'm sure. But that doesn't mean it's bad."

"Let's go back up to your house and take our clothes off and just push and pull ourselves until we're deep inside of sleep"

"How did I climb out of a life so boring into that moment? Please stop ignoring the heart inside, oh you readers at home! While you gasp at my bloody crimes, please take the time to make your heart my home: where I'm forgiven by time, where I'm cushioned by hope, where I'm numbed by long drives, where I'm talked off or doped. Does the heart wants to atone? Oh, I believe that it’s so, because if I could climb back through time, I'd restore their lives and then give back my own: tens of times now its size on a far distant road in a far distant time where every night I'm still crying, entirely alone."

"Safe, safe - enjoy your time feeling so safe, and treasure that smile on your face, okay? Because time will see that it’s replaced in a while."

"And there's no blame For how our love did slowly fade And now that it's gone It's like it wasn't there at all And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide Lying awake at night."

"I'm in Los Angeles today; garbage cans comprise the medians of freeways always creeping, even when the population's sleeping. And I can't see why you'd want to live here."

"Crashing through the parlor doors, what was your first reaction? Screaming, drunk, disorderly: I'll tell you mine. You were the one, but I can't spit it out when the date's been set."

"I'll take the best of your bad moods and dress them up to make a better you, 'cause all the company calls amount to one paycheck."

"I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere When the water filled every hole. And thousands upon thousands made an ocean, Making islands where no island should go."

"If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied Illuminate the "no"'s on their vacancy signs. If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks I'll follow you into the dark."

"Burn it down 'til the embers smoke on the ground And start new when your heart is an empty room With walls of the deepest blue [...] And all you see is where else you could be when you're at home And out on the street there are so many possibilities to not be alone"

"But I'm thinking of what Sarah said. That "love is watching someone die". So who's gonna watch you die?"

"No artist did more for noise rock’s reputation — or for that matter noise’s reputation — than Sonic Youth. They brought it to a wider audience, made a handful of hit alt-rock singles out of it, crashed grunge as it was happening, and became a beloved institution, despite the fact that the bulk of their catalog features some pretty weird stuff. Throughout the ’80s, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo amassed an arsenal of cheap guitars that they modified and through which they employed bizarre tunings as well as techniques like playing the strings with drum sticks. Their noise wasn’t just unique — no other band could replicate it."

"Perhaps even more than Joni [Mitchell], trying to summarize the music of Sonic Youth with just one tuning is an exercise in noisy futility. The pioneering art rock outfit took advantage of countless unconventional and angular tunings through their run, frequently blending multiple dissonant tunings from different guitarists within one track. [...] The sheer multiplicity of tunings that Sonic Youth used caused all sorts of logistical hurdles for the band. They used cheap guitars that could only function in certain detuned ways and famously used drumsticks and screwdrivers on their guitars to achieve even more adventurous sounds and effects."

"Hailing from Long Island, New York, with noise rock stalwarts Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore sought to tear down the idea of guitar-driven music completely. One of many struggling bands in a busy NYC scene, Sonic Youth emerged as Greenwich Village darlings, riding to the top of the heap through a string of genre-defying albums. The pair's viewpoint on their instruments was fresh, vivid and untethered to all established norms."

"Sonic Youth albums aren’t as popular now as they were in the days of cassettes. That’s because now it’s a lot easier to say, 'Hey this song is going fucking nowhere, skip it.' Every single Sonic Youth song is a 'skip it' song. Every single one. Unless, of course, you enjoy hearing Thurston Moore sound like he’s dicking around with effects pedals at Guitar Center."

"It’s hard to imagine where we would be without Sonic Youth. It’s unlikely another smart post-punk band founded around the same time — Big Black, the Meat Puppets — could have delivered us from hardcore’s fury quite the same way. What would indie rock sound like if Sonic Youth’s sublime din hadn’t enchanted and derailed all the college rock bands of the mid-’80s? We would have only been left with a bunch of sanguine Feelies rip offs, never having the chance to divulge a crush via careful mixtape placement of “Shadow of A Doubt.”"

"To the extent that I wear skirts and cheap nylon slips I've gone native"

"Her warm, white belly in the life I'd lived had seen nothing finer, she shakes and she moves me or something, she's like jellyroll, like sculpture."

"Sun shines in the rusty morning, skyline of the Olympus Mons"

"Everything I needed, and I wanted, used to be that my head was haunted""

"A life that's so sublime, palace of the brine"

"Oh kiss me cunt, oh kiss me cock, oh kiss the world, oh kiss the sky, oh kiss my ass, oh let it rock!"

"I smell smoke that comes from a gun named Extinction."

"And evolving from the sea, would not be too much time for me, to walk beside you in the sun."

"Oh Alexander, I see you beneath the archway of aerodynamics"

"Rhythmically to resound, this ain't the planet of sound."

"Why do cupids and angels continually haunt her dreams like memories?"

"One side is hot, the other side of the moon is not."

"She's my fave, undressing in the sun."

"There is this old man, that has spent so much time sleeping, that he is able to keep awake for the rest of his years"

"And when the planets hit the sun, I saw the face of Allison"

"Where have you been? Finally through the roof, and how does lemur skin reflect the sea?"

"Your mouth! Your mouth! A mile away"

"Every night and every day I bossanova wit' you."

"Chained to the pillars, a 3-day party, I break the walls and kill us all with holy fingers"

"Hey, been trying to meet you. Mmmmm. Hey, must be a devil between us, or whores in my head. Whores at the door. Whore in my bed, but hey."

"Got hair in a girl that flows to her bones, and a comb in her pocket if the wind get blown"

"Shake your butt! (But not too hard!)"

"You're apin' rapin' tapin' catharsis, you get tore down and I get erected, my blood is working but my heart is dead!"

"I'm moving out of this hospedaje, I'm afraid you'll cut me, boy!"

"You can cry, you can mope, but can you swing from a good rope, boy?"

"What's that floating in the water? Ol' Neptuna's only daughter"

"If man is 5, then the devil is 6, and if the devil is 6, then God is 7"

"I know the nervous walking, I know the dirty beard hangs, out by the boxcar waiting, take me away to nowhere plains"

"As loud as hell, a ringing bell, behind my smile, it shakes my teeth"

"You think I'm dead, but I sail away, on a wave of mutilation"