Tansy

“annoyed. Parents have that special skill of making the truth, no matter how benign, an embarrassing thing. We all know this.”
― M.O. Walsh, My Sunshine Away

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“But for every adult person you look up to in life there is trailing behind them an invisible chain gang of ghosts, all of which, as a child, you are generously spared from”
― M.O. Walsh, My Sunshine Away