“The world is full of bad men, but if you are prepared, and if you are STRONG, then you cannot be taken off guard, and you will not be scared. And when they DO come to your door in the… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share
“It was the first time in her life that she considered clothing as a method of camoflaging our scars, the traumas of our lives.” — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“Goddamn golf shirts and gym memberships and fake muscles and tans and cell phones and new cars. Trevor didn't care about any of that… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.” — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“The world is composed of people who are hungry, and those who are not hungry. It goes back to energy, to entropy. If you are hungry for food, you will be hungry for God, too. Or politics, or some kind of love. The people who are hungry have holes in them that can't be filled. Don't get me wrong. I've… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share
“something desperate, something ecstatic, some transference of, yes, energy” — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“It feels like she's having some very sophisticated sleepover with her spiritual sensei or guru. She has always avoided the term LIFE COACH, finding… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“and read the books that always seem to Jenga up on her bedside table without her managing to actually read them” — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“The way he loved was almost like a vise, a weight; at times she felt it verged on codependence--that his identity, his value system,… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“Winter in Wisconsin is the ideal time to avoid someone because our garments grow ever larger, ever thicker, and we go about the frozen… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“The world is full of bad men, but if you are prepared, and if you are STRONG, then you cannot be taken off guard, and you will not be scared. And when they DO come to your door in the middle of the night and you are there to greet them with all the light there is inside you, all… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share
