107 quotes found
Author · American
American author
“He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.”
“And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.”
“I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.”
“It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hol...”
“In the distance are the lights of town. People must be finishing their workdays, picking up their kids, figuring out dinner. They're talking to one another in easy voices about things of great sign...”
“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.”
“The sun stopped shining for me is all.”
“Whenever Ingrid and I got out of the suburbs, into Berkeley or San Francisco, and saw how other people lived, Ingrid would cry at the smallest of things- a little boy walking home by himself, a dis...”
“It's about what I know is true. Because I'm looking at this bright red storm of color on a canvas, at all my delicate lines and passionate brushstrokes. I'm looking at something so urgent and true,...”
“I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic...”
“There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.”
“I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once, I catch my reflection: it looks like Ive been punched in both eyes.I cant talk about the day tha...”
“my life is just waiting for you to get started.”
“All I have is a life's worth of school days. What came before school I can't remember. You can only sketch so many desks and teachers and chalkboards. You can only come home to so many dinners and ...”
“The first time she carved something into her skin, she used the sharp tip of an X-Acto knife. She lifted up her shirt to show me after the cuts had scabbed over. She had scrawled F*** YOU on her st...”
“If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.”
“It's a dark place, not knowing. It's difficult to surrender to. But I guess it's where we live most of the time. I guess it's where we all live, so maybe it doesn't have to be so lonely. Maybe I ca...”
“This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.”
“My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
“There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.”
