John Boettcher

“All good writers are weird. Proudly weird.”
― Margo Rabb, Kissing in America

“What I realized standing there, is that this dark yearning is what happens when we idealize anything: the form of a woman, a landscape, a spiritual impulse. We move it closer to the realm of the dead, if not outright kill it. The living joyful exuberant woman becomes statue marble and dead, or pornographic and equally dead. The spiritual impulse becomes religion. And dead.”
― Peter Heller, The Painter

“Death changes everyone......
It changes the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you live your life.
Sometimes it makes you thankful for what you have, but more often that not, it makes you regret the things you've lost.”
― Tara Sivec, Watch over Me

“I’m convinced that empathy is more powerful than hate and that our lives should be dedicated to making it go viral.”
― Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice