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Family Friends Sisters Family Relationships Best Friends Sister Sisterhood Family Relationship Besties

Author:Shannon Celebi

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

Memories Family Sisters Family Relationships Sister Sisterhood Siblings Closeness Close Sister Bond

Author:Shannon Celebi

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

Boys Youth Summer Beach Boyfriend Summertime Booze Summer Nights Beaches

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

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

Worry Worried What If Worrying Worries Worrying Over Nothing

Book:Driving Off Bridges

Source: Driving Off Bridges

“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.”

Heart Mother Son Motherhood Selfish Selfishness Wicked Mothers Wickedness Mothers Love Sons Sons And Mothers

Book:Driving Off Bridges

Source: Driving Off Bridges

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

Heart Steel Stripping Strippers

Book:The Lion Lies Down with the Lamb

Source: The Lion Lies Down with the Lamb

“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.”

Men Love Men And Women True Love Biblical Men And Women In Love Biblical Love

Book:After Spring Comes

Source: After Spring Comes

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

Prayer Alone Hostage Lonliness Alone Time Hostage Crisis Hostage Situation

Author:Shannon Celebi

“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.”

Art Women Feminism Birth Men And Women Discovery Intelligence Feminist Invention Womanhood Women S Rights Women S Strength Woman S Strength Woman To Woman

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

“When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.”

Life Life Lessons Father Growing Up Life And Living Twenties Coming Of Age Fathers Fathers And Daughters Life And Living Life Lessons

Author:Shannon Celebi

“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 that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free.”

Death Freedom Pretending Death And Dying Dead Death Of A Loved One Free Ghosts Mama Dead People Dead And Gone Pretending Death

Author:Shannon Celebi

“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.”

Death Grief Grieving Death And Dying Husband And Wife Widows Death And Love Widowhood Widow

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

“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 if they don’t tend to know it.”

Beautiful Young Beauty Youth Hopelessness Youthfulness Youthful Young Girl Young Girls

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

“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.”

Longing Melancholy Remembrance Remembering Melancholia

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

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

Sex Longing Sexuality Crush Masturbation Crushes Sexual Freedom

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

“I could say it all began with my mother.”

Mother Parents Beginning Freud Freudian

Author:Shannon Celebi

“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 The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.”

Writing Writing Process Sharing Writing Life Personal Sharing Life Seven Deadly Sins Sharing Pain Writing Process Writing Advice Mr Rogers The Neighborhood Of Make Believe Trappped

Author:Shannon Celebi

“I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life around...”

Mermaid Ariel Mermaids Turning Point

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

“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 wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.”

Eye Death Physics Death And Dying Eyes Dead Wormhole Apparition Space And Cosmos Apparitional

Book:1:32 P.M.

Source: 1:32 P.M.

“Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on my brow...and I know it’s time to bust out those “chocolate frogs” from Harry Potter.”

Fear Anxiety Chocolate Harry Potter Fears Afraid Dementors Chocolate Problems Worry Humor Chocolateism Chocolate Frog Dementors Kiss

Author:Shannon Celebi

“You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.”

Children Depression Anxiety Motherhood Fatherhood Pills Once Upon A Time Little Girl

Book:After Spring Comes

Source: After Spring Comes

“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.”

Race Racism Slavery Race Relations Abolition White People Colored Race America

Book:Papa Was A Gypsy

Source: Papa Was A Gypsy

“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.”

Want Needs Wanting Small Town Life Small Towns Neediness Needing Wanting Something Wanting What You Can T Have Shannon Celebi Small Town Demons

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

“The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.”

Relationships Relationship Relationship Quotes Abuse Bottom Line Abuse Survivor

Author:Shannon Celebi

“Mrs. Porter was from Virginia and had a smooth-as-cat-fur way of speaking. She taught me how to say, “Fiddle-Dee-Dee,” just like Scarlett O’Hara and she made her split-pea soup with bacon and even let me try on her lipstick sometimes as she teased up my hair in the same sixties style she wore, “Ala Pricilla Presley,” whoever that was.”

Soup Virginia Speaking Fiddle Bacon Scarlett O Hara Sixties Presley

Book:1:32 P.M.

Source: 1:32 P.M.

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

Careers Support Career Supportive Hopes And Dreams Hopes Shattered Dreams Career Paths Supported

Author:Shannon Celebi

“She dreamed of driving off bridges: into a lake beneath some twisting highway of her youth, into the reservoir on the country road to home, into the San Francisco Bay.”

Driving Bridges Lake Highway Driving Lessons Reservoir San Francisco Bay Country Road Driving Off Bridges

Book:Driving Off Bridges

Source: Driving Off Bridges

“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 be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.”

Beauty Feminism Feminist Profession Women S Rights Women S Strength Using People

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

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

Racism Slavery Flowers Race Relations Abolition Pretty Girl Abolitionist Pretty Girls

Book:Papa Was A Gypsy

Source: Papa Was A Gypsy

“My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper.”

Stephen King Ayn Rand T S Eliot Bang Terry Goodkind Whimper

Book:After Spring Comes

Source: After Spring Comes

“Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave,” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.”

Abuse Women S Rights Mental Abuse Verbal Abuse Spousal Abuse Verbal Attack

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

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

Youth Bruises Youthfulness Picking Yourself Up

Book:Small Town Demons

Source: Small Town Demons

“It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.”

World Dream Plans Dreams Crazy Wake Up Planning Waking Dreaming Plan Craziness Waking Up

Book:After Spring Comes

Source: After Spring Comes

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

Love Hate Hate To Love Love To Hate

Book:Papa Was A Gypsy

Source: Papa Was A Gypsy

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