Chelsea Stickle > Quotes

“There is a town at the edge of things where women hold in their screams. They die young: high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, cancer. The girls watch their mothers and grandmothers and aunts play Ring Around the Rosie, ashes, ashes, they all fall into graves where no one will ever see them again.”
― Chelsea Stickle, Everything's Changing

“I’m sorry to report that if you can hear me, you’re dead. Such a shame. But don’t worry. We’ll help you adjust.”
― Chelsea Stickle, Everything's Changing

“It’s like she stepped out of the car and walked until she reached something. The sea air with her toes enmeshed in wet sand. A cave that echoed so she could finally hear herself. The quiet solitude of the dwarfing Redwood forest with trunks the size of cars. The past smaller than a speck behind her.”
― Chelsea Stickle, Breaking Points

“People say ballet theaters are haunted by the dancers who died tragically young, but that’s not true. Theaters are haunted by bored ghost girls. They’ve spooked everyone worth spooking. Wandered Paris, Rome, Tokyo. Lasted lifetimes in ineffectual transparent bodies. Now they strive for perfection, unity, grace. All the things they didn’t have time to achieve when alive.”
― Chelsea Stickle, Everything's Changing