“America, I think, is about poor people playing music and poor people sharing food and poor people dancing, even when everything else in their life is so desperate, and so dismal that it doesn't seem there should be any room… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“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… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“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,… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
