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21 " Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up. "
― Shannon Celebi
22 " If she could hate this much she sure as hell had loved. "
― Shannon Celebi , Papa Was A Gypsy (Small Town Ghosts)
23 " My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom. "
24 " Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes—not unlike you—not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even if they don’t tend to know it. "
― Shannon Celebi , Small Town Demons
25 " All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze. "
26 " Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises. "
27 " Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on my brow...and I know it’s time to bust out those “chocolate frogs” from Harry Potter. "
28 " Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill me. "
29 " Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold. "
― Shannon Celebi , Driving Off Bridges (Small Town Ghosts)
30 " She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white. "
31 " Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue. "
32 " I could say it all began with my mother. "
33 " She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat. "
34 " Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave,” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists. "
35 " I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you’re trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever. "
36 " Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free. "
37 " Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine. "
38 " Amber Rorman had told me too that our third grade teacher, Ms. Lizetti, was really a lesbian, which I thought was a disease until I asked Amber and Amber told me to ask her mother who told me to ask my mother, who said, “Lesbians are women who like to have sex with other women,” which I didn’t think was all that weird. "
― Shannon Celebi , 1:32 P.M. (Small Town Ghosts)
39 " Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead. "
40 " You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying? "