“Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?” Philosophy Book:The Solace of Leaving Early Source: The Solace of Leaving Early
“On my end-of-the-year report card all she wrote was “Is disruptive in class. Colors outside the lines. Talks out of turn.” When I showed it to my parents, they read it out loud to me, and my mom said, “Good for you, sweetheart.” And my dad gave me a little pat on the back.” SchoolConformityBohemian Book:A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana Source: A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
“Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.” MotherBooks Author:Haven Kimmel
“One chance--that's what she had seen she had--one flying leap that was really composed of eight thousand separate possibilities for falling, and she had taken that chance and come this far and been found out.” ChancePossibility Author:Haven Kimmel
“in the 1970s people still referred to my mother as a Communist because she had a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly,” CommunistSmall TownBohemianSmall Town LifeProvincialism Author:Haven Kimmel