“ 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. Shannon Celebi
“ 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. Shannon Celebi
“ It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz. Shannon Celebi
“ 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 bendi… Shannon Celebi
“ Amber Rorman had told me too that our third grade teacher, Ms. Lizetti, was really a lesbian, which I thought was a disease until I asked Amber and Amber told me to ask her mother who told me to ask m… 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 Neighborhoo… Shannon Celebi
“ 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. Shannon Celebi
“ Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue. Shannon Celebi
“ Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill me. Shannon Celebi
“ 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 “choco… Shannon Celebi
“ 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 ten… Shannon Celebi
“ I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to k… Shannon Celebi
“ I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something. Shannon Celebi
“ Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill. Shannon Celebi
