“Be careful what you get good at doin' 'cause you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. -Jo Carson” — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“There are two things you should never do with your father: learn how to drive and learn how to kill a chicken.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It became such a recurring experience during this period when I was twenty -- to be starving and afraid of running out of money… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“For the first time in probably the entire decade that had passed since I had seen or spoken to my own mother, I thought… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I had always wanted to contribute in some way. Leave a little more than I took.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Each housing development has a "country" name - Squirrel Valley, Pine Ridge, Eagle crossing, Deer Path, which has an unkind way of invoking and… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“But it was from him - with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck) - from… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing more than… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“That is my favorite kind of integrated person. Some of each thing and not too much of any one.” — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“So what is there to make of the simplistic thing I've come to utter in explanation, which is so drab, so monochromatic, so water… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
![“[I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.” quote by Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/58b/gabrielle-hamilton-23556_anchored_i-like-to-be-anchored-by-routine-not-sha_368459.jpg)
