85 quotes found
Author · American · 1965
American author (born 1965)
“Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?”
“it's okay to be addicted to beauty," Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.”
“Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.”
“The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.”
“SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air”
“And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.”
“Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.”
“No I contradict myself. Picasso he do too. He say pull out your brain, yes, he also say, 'Painting is a blind man's profession' and 'To draw you must close your eyes and sing.' And Michelangelo, he...”
“Are you an artist?""I'm a mess is what I am," he says, holding on to the building for support. "A bloody mess. You 're the artist, mate." Then he's gone.”
“Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.”
“Was the sky always this shade of magenta?”
“What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?”
“The.World.Is.Not.A.Safe.Place.”
“I do not want to eat or drink, or i will lose the taste of you in my mouth”
“There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds.”
“When I wear her clothes, I just feel safer, like she's whispering in my ear.”
“I'm in self-imposed exile, cradled between split branches, in my favorite tree in the woods behind school. I've been coming here every day at lunch, hiding out until the bell rings, whittling words...”
“Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.”
“I drop on my back on the bed, panting and sweating. How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world stari...”
“I'd been making desicions for days.I picked out the dress Bailey would wear forever-a black slinky one- innapropriate- that she loved.I chose a sweater to go over it, earrings, bracelet, necklace, ...”
