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“She told me to stop writing this book. She told me to imagine a glass vase filled with blue marbles and to put all my sickness and fear into a single green marble. Then she told me to push that green marble all the way down into the middle of that vase and asked me if I could still see it. I couldn’t.”
― Broken Horses
― Broken Horses
“If you find me in my work, I haven’t done my job. If you find yourself, then I’m an artist.”
― Broken Horses
― Broken Horses
“I’d finished college long ago but often thought that if I could go back to those days and bring with me the curiosity and focus that had bloomed in me in the years since, I’d enjoy it so much more.”
― Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep
― Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep
“But in this analogy you and your family love country music NOW. Turn on the radio and listen to what is being said to your daughter right this minute: That she’s an ass in a pair of blue jeans. That she belongs in the passenger seat of a pickup truck with a koozie. That she’s only into “backroad” guys. Show me even a right-wing mother or father who wants their daughter to believe this about herself and I’ll show you a liar.”
― Broken Horses
― Broken Horses
“All men, I think, wonder who the secret man that lives inside them is and whom they will meet in the mirror when they stop shaving. They wonder if that man is better than the one they know. If that elder sage or fantasy wizard or feral mountain man will be wiser than they, and when they are lost, if that dude will light up his staff and guide them through the dwarven mines and out of the wilderness.”
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
― Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
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