6 Quotes by Anton DiSclafani

It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life.

I tried to keep myself busy, always. When I wasn’t busy I could feel myself getting dangerously close to a despair that always seemed to be there, just beneath the surface:.

I began to forget. It is either the mind’s greatest mercy or its worst trick: that we forget those we love. If I.

I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide it consumed my family. I almost fell into it, with them. I almost lost myself.

I knew what it was like to want, to desire so intensely you were willing to throw everything else into its fire.

We learned in class, were lectured to about wars and famines, ancient kings and queens, the habits of presidents. But the lectures were cursory. We needed to know what happened, because we were the well-bred daughters of men who could afford to educate us – but not why, or how.