Shannon Celebi > Quotes

“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

“We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.”
― Shannon Celebi

“When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.”
― Shannon Celebi

“You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?”
― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges

“My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.”
― Shannon Celebi

“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

“Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.”
― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges

“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.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave,” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“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.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“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.”
― Shannon Celebi

“Because the South can be a dangerous place, especially for those who don’t understand it.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“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.”
― Shannon Celebi

“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

“It 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, Small Town Demons

“If she could hate this much she sure as hell had loved.”
― Shannon Celebi, Papa Was A Gypsy

“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

“I could say it all began with my mother.”
― Shannon Celebi

“The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.”
― Shannon Celebi

“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.”
― Shannon Celebi

“Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.”
― Shannon Celebi

“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.”
― Shannon Celebi

“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...”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“She dreamed of driving off bridges: into a lake beneath some twisting highway of her youth, into the reservoir on the country road to home, into the San Francisco Bay.”
― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges

“Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life around...”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.”
― Shannon Celebi

“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.

“Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.”
― Shannon Celebi