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“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

tags: neediness, needing, needs, shannon-celebi, small-town-demons, small-town-life, small-towns, want, wanting, wanting-something, wanting-what-you-can-t-have

7 likes

“Because the South can be a dangerous place, especially for those who don’t understand it.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

tags: south, southern, southerners, the-south

9 likes

“Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells...”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

tags: jack-nicholson, medicine, mental-health, mental-illness, mental-patient, one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest, psychiatry, psychology

4 likes

“Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.”
― Shannon Celebi

tags: alone, alone-time, hostage, hostage-crisis, hostage-situation, lonliness, prayer

3 likes