Rockstarlet: A Novel

I've been on a roll lately with this whole reading thing. This weekend on the plane I finished a gulity-pleasure-paperback, and I'm here to share with you the lines that couldn't avoid the highlighter.

Rockstarlet by Stewart Lewis is a novel about the music industry and fame’s ultimate cost. Jackson Poole (the main character) gets his first record deal and everything else that goes along with it. In order to pursue his dream of being a rockstar, he is forced to hide the truth about his sexuality. I thoroughly enjoyed it for obvious reasons!

Some of my favorite lines:

“Some actually did move, but the ones who didn’t wore their envy like a wound.”

“I wish my cousin Duane was here, he always has a pile of cocaine & a great attitude.”

“Hey, you fancy a joint?” I asked.
“Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?”

“Autumn would enter my life sharply & quickly, working to heat & expose the insides, and then disappear.”

“After the shows we would make out in the dingy hotel rooms & talk about life. Though fleeting, it felt right, as if both of us were gathering a piece of a puzzle that would eventually make us whole.”

“Salt & pepper at the temples. Essential for any meal.”

“He’s insecure & they have something that works, something that feeds each other’s weaknesses. It’s dysfunction central.”

“I felt lucky to even be in his wake, & eventually I ended up in his bed.”

“...the point where silence becomes a scream, and life, all of a sudden, seems unbearably short.

“That first night playing to all those people was a culmination of years of struggle…”

“I felt a loss, a deep sadness, but also an epiphany. From the first time I’d met her, Kia had dictated the tone of our time together: casual, mutual needs, taking nothing too seriously. But this was an evolution. I sensed that Kia and I had run our course, at least for now. She had been like sand slipping through my hand—beginning with a nice sensation and then silently dropping away.”

“The threat of tragedy opens your eyes. Only mine had been closed so long the light was blinding.”

“…but they were both suburban dads, so their threshold just wasn’t at the same level as mine.”

“New York had it’s superficiality, of course, but it by no means dominated as much as it did in Los Angeles.”

“My phone rang. Was this the sound of my career being flushed down the toilet?”

“The strongest happiness is the kind you feel for someone else.”

“In the silence that followed I thought about the things we wish for and if they’re always what they seem. Like me wishing to get a record deal and to find a true love and have kids—being naïve, not realizing the implications, the stipulations, the anguish, and despair.”

“I felt thrilled to be there in that dense mecca overflowing with culture, yet also humbled. Everyone is someone in New York.”

I really do love a good read :)