“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 Afraid 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
“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the… — Shannon Celebi Connection Copy Share Image
“Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.” — Shannon Celebi Anxiety 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
“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
“I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in… — Shannon Celebi Book 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
“Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.” — Shannon Celebi Cat 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 Ariel 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
“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
“Amber Rorman had told me too that our third grade teacher, Ms. Lizetti, was really a lesbian, which I thought was a… — Shannon Celebi Gay 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 Back-to-the-future 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 Close 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
“All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.” — Shannon Celebi Beach 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
“Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.” — Shannon Celebi Bruises Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like… — Shannon Celebi Deadly sins Copy Share Image
