“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.” IfsLongEndsEnoughShowsLostWaitingTaughtLike YouFind MeTaught Us Book:Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn't a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.” IfsKnowsWayLongEndsStatesFallLostEssentialsEdgesMy WayBordersStationsLost FriendLost YouSahara Author:Nick Flynn
“Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.” IfsFeelsLongMomentsStoriesFallSilenceSafe Author:Nick Flynn
“I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.” ThinkingWritingKindLittlesLongStillsMightSchoolCrazyPoetLong TimeHigh SchoolBeing TrueShamefulAfter High SchoolElectricianLife After High School Author:Nick Flynn
