Trey Holt

“It was as if her broken edges fit my own.”
― Trey Holt, Bottomland

“It's because we want to believe two basic things," he said. "Number one: that we belong; and number two: that we go on forever. I think that these two desires may be the base psychic desires, or maybe even needs, of all humans. The ironic thing is that they're the things that we spend the most time on … and they're what we already have. They can sell us anything, change the styles on us, tell us something is looking good when it's not and we have to have it. Do you know why? Because it makes us feel like we belong. From hairstyles to shoes to the kind of food we eat to the book we read, we are prone to do what's most popular because there's a strange kind of kinship, or at least feigned kinship, in it. Everything starts because it's practical. Clothes, cars … everything. Then these things are turned into something 'to have.' So somebody can look like they belong. What we don't realize is that we already belong.”
― Trey Holt, Bottomland