Taylor Roy
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If he was at all aware, he had to be pissed at how long it was taking him to do something as simple as die. Dad didn’t believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can.
“How creepy it was that we could conceal these stories. How easy it was to pretend. The slivers we show, the mountains we hide.”
― Know My Name: A Memoir
― Know My Name: A Memoir
“Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“When I came home that evening, the jar I had carried down into the depths of my mental cellar was sitting in the center of the room, waiting for me. That’s funny, how did you get here? Again I picked it up, opened the door, and walked down, down, down the stairs to lock it away.”
― Know My Name: A Memoir
― Know My Name: A Memoir
“Daylight expanded with each breath.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
“in the wildest place in America, on the edge of civilization, where water in all its forms can kill you, you learn who you are. Not who you dream of being, not who you imagined you were, not who you were raised to be.”
― The Great Alone
― The Great Alone
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