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Shannon Celebi  Quotes
The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.

—Shannon Celebi

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Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill me.

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I could say it all began with my mother.

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She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

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If she could hate this much she sure as hell had loved.

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A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

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I’m sorry if…I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you’re trapped in...

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My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

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Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

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Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

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She didn’t tell him white folks couldn’t love the same as coloreds. She couldn’t love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.

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We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

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Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

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I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing–and reading–is a solitary business. And it’s good to know...

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Jeb’d said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.

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Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

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All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

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Just write. That’s my only tip. And read. I guess that’s two.

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Lesbians are women who like to have sex with other women,” which I didn’t think was all that weird.

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Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

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Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.

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Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes—not unlike you—not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even...

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You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?

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I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

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Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.

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Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could...

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Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.

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If he hits you, then you leave,” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

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Mama wasn’t dead…exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well...

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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…

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Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant...

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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.

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I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.

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

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chocolate frogs” from Harry Potter.

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Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.

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She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

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I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

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Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

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Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.

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She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

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