Tracy Fahey > Quotes

“We're born alone. We spend our lives trying to connect outside ourselves. Loneliness terrifies us; we define our very selves in relation to others. We reach out constantly. We need to feel we matter. We fall in love--or tell ourselves we do--to feel that intimate connection. We grow babies inside ourselves to fill that need. So much of what we do is an attempt to stave off the stark isolation of being ourselves in our own bodies.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

“And last of all, a kiss goodbye. I touch my lips to her smooth, cold forehead. ‘Goodbye and good luck.’ I love the pleasant dead.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

“I've finally stopped running away from myself. And now I can't find my way back.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

“We are all seeds of ourselves. We choose what we grow into. Some of us become monsters, some don't.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

“I am in love. I am recklessly free, unbounded by hesitancy, buttressed by your affection.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

“We all carry our losses with us.”
― Tracy Fahey, I Spit Myself Out

“It’s hard to tell stories straight when you’re my age; when you’ve lived in a place all your life there’s too much detail in the picture to see it clearly.”
― Tracy Fahey, New Music for Old Rituals