“Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.” — Shannon Celebi Cat Copy Share Image
“All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.” — Shannon Celebi Beach Copy Share Image
“Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.” — Shannon Celebi Books Copy Share Image
“Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.” — Shannon Celebi Anxiety Copy Share Image
“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.” — Shannon Celebi Longing Copy Share Image
“My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper.” — Shannon Celebi Ayn-rand Copy Share Image
“Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.” — Shannon Celebi Alone Copy Share Image
“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… — Shannon Celebi Abolition Copy Share Image
“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… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“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… — Shannon Celebi Biblical Copy Share Image
“I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life around...” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well… — Shannon Celebi Art Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“And I wished myself back—back to the future or wherever home was supposed to be—clicking my heels together in a frantic ticking… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes—not unlike you—not a typical beauty but… — Shannon Celebi Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house,… — Shannon Celebi Children Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of driving off bridges: into a lake beneath some twisting highway of her youth, into the reservoir on the country… — Shannon Celebi Bridges Copy Share Image
“Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though… — Shannon Celebi Beauty Copy Share Image
“Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and… — Shannon Celebi Apparition Copy Share Image
“Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night,… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“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… — Shannon Celebi Bacon Copy Share Image
“We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or… — Shannon Celebi Abolition Copy Share Image
“She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.” — Shannon Celebi Heart Copy Share Image
“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… — Shannon Celebi Anxiety Copy Share Image
“When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.” — Shannon Celebi Coming of age Copy Share Image
“Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.” — Shannon Celebi Career Copy Share Image
“Because the South can be a dangerous place, especially for those who don’t understand it.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife… — Shannon Celebi Fantasies Copy Share Image
“Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave,” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.” — Shannon Celebi Abuse Copy Share Image
“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 Craziness Copy Share Image
