Quotes by Shannon Mullen, See What Flowers

“Is there such a thing as being too happy?”

“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”

“Thats what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.”

“When youre in the wild, theres nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or credentials or security. Youre just alone with yourself. You look around and lose ...”

“Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.”

“Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they arent there.”

“Sleeping is much safer than the nightmare Im living. When I sleep I feel nothing and I do nothing and I see nothing and nothing matters and no one cares. Theres no one to hurt or disappoint or noti...”

“It is not the darkness of shadows: one that follows you, haunts you, terrifies you. Instead, it consumes you, becomes you, weighs you down. It IS you. It is comforting. Familiar. I have walked with...”

“As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they did beforehovering, annoyed, frustrated, contained by the ceiling and disappointe...”

“The intensity of my grief hits the mountains across Eclipse Sound, and then echoes throughout Arctic. Theres nobody around. I can barely see the town below the hill, nestled within the valley of ba...”

“Just as Im about to continue walking along the shoreline, the left third of the iceberg breaks off suddenly and crashes violently, like a high-rise apartment building imploding in the heart of the ...”

“I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and its even harder to recognize the truth when its buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.”

“Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.”

“Can I Tinder swipe for cat cuddles?”

“Despite all of the social advances in womens rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.”

“How can any of us even know what to believe anymore? Our cultures full of so much phoniness and deception. Companies advertise products to make us believe that we will be more beautiful, more healt...”

“She cant worry. She cant fix. She cant love.”

“Perhaps love in the digital age is more like Netflix binge-watching: we enjoy bursts of fantasy, and then move on to something else when its done. Like browsing for a new series on Netflix, if the ...”

“Family is the most important thing in this life.”

“Were lost in each other, in the heart of Toronto, slow dancing to nothing but the beat of my heart and the sound of her breath on my neck. I know the subway trains are trembling beneath my feet and...”