“ Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers. Nick Flynn
“ My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures—it was cathartic for me to look at them, but I could imagine it might have been hell to make them (I wa… Nick Flynn
“ 2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just had to discover jars). At one point I laid each chapter out on the terraz… Nick Flynn
“ It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame. Nick Flynn
“ You do know, right,that between the no-longer & the still-to-comeyou are being continuallytattooed, inkedwith the skulls ofeveryoneyou’ve ever loved—the you& the you& the you & the you—you don’tsit in… Nick Flynn
“ What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into. Nick Flynn
“ If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word ,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word , a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell fr… Nick Flynn
“ Some mornings you wake up fully in your body, and you know this is all there is--the air, the shape your body makes in the air, your hand, the skin that covers your hand, the air that covers your skin… Nick Flynn
“ Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough. Nick Flynn
“ Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I w… Nick Flynn
“ But what of Ham? It didn’t matter if he told anyone about his drunken father or not, if he chided him or tried to dress him, if he lifted his struggling body back into bed, if he took his hand and tol… Nick Flynn
“ I’ve come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there is… Nick Flynn
“ There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under. Nick Flynn
“ Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything? Nick Flynn
