Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons Quotes
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.
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.
All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.
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.
Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.
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.
