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> [“Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/jeb-d-said-it-was-harder-for-a-pretty-girl-to-find-work-even-white/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/she-didn-t-tell-him-white-folks-couldn-t-love-the-same-as-coloreds/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

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## More by Shannon Celebi

> [“If she could hate this much she sure as hell had loved.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/if-she-could-hate-this-much-she-sure-as-hell-had-loved/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/of-course-i-rationalize-the-fear-i-realize-it-s-not-real-that-my/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/i-think-first-of-the-children-what-the-hell-am-i-supposed-to-tell/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/i-long-for-some-connection-to-the-real-and-those-who-love-them-and/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

> [“Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/okay-i-ll-just-jump-right-out-and-say-it-i-have-anxiety-issues/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

> [“The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/the-bottom-line-was-that-i-was-in-an-abusive-relationship/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/she-dreamed-of-driving-off-bridges-into-a-lake-beneath-some-twisting/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/let-s-call-my-mood-melancholy-let-s-call-it-remembrance-or-maybe-let/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/i-am-forever-an-advocate-of-books-both-the-reading-of-them-and-the/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

> [“She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/she-was-no-stripper-with-a-heart-of-gold-that-was-for-sure-a-heart-of/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

> [“Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/here-s-a-random-factoid-i-like-cats-and-here-s-another-i-like-red-wine/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

> [“I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life around...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/i-think-of-ariel-my-local-neighborhood-mermaid-how-she-only-had/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

> [“My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/my-stephen-king-for-his-ayn-rand-my-terry-goodkind-for-his-t-s-elliot/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/it-s-not-like-i-planned-it-i-never-woke-up-from-some-rosy-dream-and/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-celebi/amber-rorman-had-told-me-too-that-our-third-grade-teacher-ms-lizetti/)

[Shannon Celebi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-celebi/)

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