Burning desire Quote by Chila Woychik

“I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy. I suddenly…

— Chila Woychik

“Support our troops!” we cry, but I say, “Love our veterans!” And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him a song.…

— Chila Woychik

“The setting sun threatened to consume me—it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by…

— Chila Woychik

“sunset and evening star hunching and bending sleeping and slipping virus pneumonia coughing and crying hope in the small things heaven looks brighter aching…

— Chila Woychik

“I was a late bloomer. I was still naïve about what 16 year olds today have known for years. I remember sitting up and…

— Chila Woychik

“Split your skull—a hatchet works well enough. Take a more delicate instrument—a scalpel, perhaps—and make a hand-sized slit; it doesn’t matter where. Reach in…

— Chila Woychik

“PLEASE TELL ME YOU KNOW OF SYLVIA PLATH Conventions bleed my soul squeeze me old wear me grey like a headstone in transit. It’s…

— Chila Woychik

“I don’t want to believe in boxes or one-way relationships; I’m naïve, you see. I’d rather moon the moon than flip off a friend,…

— Chila Woychik

“God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of China or…

— Chila Woychik

“Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice.”

— Chila Woychik

“Pulitzer is a word but accomplishment is an aura.”

— Chila Woychik

“Only seconds slip by without me scrambling for the aid of someone better, more knowledgeable, to walk beside. Writers are good for that. They…

— Chila Woychik