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1 " Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics. "
― Shannon Celebi , 1:32 P.M. (Small Town Ghosts)
2 " It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz. "
― Shannon Celebi , After Spring Comes (Small Town Ghosts)
3 " She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back. "
― Shannon Celebi , Driving Off Bridges (Small Town Ghosts)
4 " She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like. "
― Shannon Celebi , The Lion Lies Down with the Lamb (Small Town Ghosts)
5 " We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends. "
― Shannon Celebi
6 " I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine. "
― Shannon Celebi , Small Town Demons
7 " You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl. "
8 " Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill. "
9 " I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something. "
10 " A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man. "
11 " Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife. "
12 " Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells... "
13 " Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues. "
14 " Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please. "
15 " When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never. "
16 " The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship. "
17 " I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind. "
18 " Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me. "
19 " I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone. "
20 " Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two. "
