“I've always liked the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be so it's easier to remember who I am.”
― Trusting Soul: Collected Stories & Drawings
― Trusting Soul: Collected Stories & Drawings
“One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that's too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn't playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him sometimes & wonder if he ever got there.”
― Story People
― Story People
“I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sold the house & I never got to go back for it.
A nickel used to mean something, I said.
She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry.”
― Story People
A nickel used to mean something, I said.
She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry.”
― Story People
“She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said.”
― Story People
― Story People
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