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Conrad Wesselhoeft

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Conrad Wesselhoeft worked as a tugboat hand in Singapore and Peace Corps Volunteer in Polynesia before embarking on a career in journalism. He has served on the editorial staffs of five newspapers, including The New York Times. He is the author of ADIOS, NIRVANA (2010) and DIRT BIKES, DRONES, AND OTHER WAYS TO FLY (2014), two contemporary young-adult novels from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He lives in West Seattle. You can learn more about him at conradwesselhoeft.com.

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	Adios, Nirvana 3.98 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Everybody's wondering, how can I arrange the daisies and dandelions of my life into a better bouquet? The answer is, you can't. Life is random. Life is absurd. Life is deadly. The bouquet arranges itself. And it doesn't always bloom or smell good.”
― Conrad Wesselhoeft, Adios, Nirvana

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“To live is to swim toward the shimmer, to die is to never try.”
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“That's the secret--to close your hand on jagged glass, then open it and find a butterfly.”
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
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“That's the secret--to close your hand on jagged glass, then open it and find a butterfly.”
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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“To live is to swim toward the shimmer, to die is to never try.”
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“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."

[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
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