“We both laughed. We couldn't stop laughing. I mean we were really laughing. And I got to thinking that the whole thing really wasn't that funny, but we were laughing because there was all these feelings inside us and we didn't always know what to do with all the feelings that were like knots that needed to be untied, so sometimes we just, well, we laughed. That's how we untied the knots.”
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“I was looking for a miracle, but I got a story instead, and sometimes those are the same thing.”
― All the Crooked Saints
― All the Crooked Saints
“I am in love with my new name.”
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“I really did believe that God had planted leaves in our hearts so that we could remember Eden.”
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
“Someone had named the barrio we lived in Hollywood. Maybe it was a joke, maybe it was a prayer.”
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
― Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
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