01UndatedAll I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
03UndatedSometimes, 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.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
04UndatedOf 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.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
06UndatedShe 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.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
07UndatedJeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
09UndatedShe 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.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
10UndatedHer mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave,” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
11UndatedI’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.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
12UndatedMama 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.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
13UndatedHere’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
14UndatedAmber 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 / quote ↗
15UndatedLet’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
17UndatedIt wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
18UndatedThrough career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.Shannon Celebi / quote ↗
