46 Quotes by Francisco X. Stork

If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it comes to women." I like that expression very much, even though I disagree. If anything, Wendell has more marbles than he needs when it comes to women.

There are two different questions: Do you want to die? and Do you want to live? But in the darkness of my mind, not wanting to live and wanting to die don't seem like two things you can pull apart. They're wrapped up in the no more that I feel right now.

Here's another unexpected experience—this pleasure I feel when I imagine how I am going to tell Wendell that I will not ask Jasmine to go on a boat ride. What do I call that?

I don’t want anything. I simply don’t want.

You are not the clouds or even the blue sky where clouds live. You are the sun behind them, giving light to all, and the sun is made up of goodness and kindness and light.

Mona says that talking heals, but at times like this, I think that just being next to someone who likes you is all anybody ever needs.

My brain is like a water faucet that I can turn on or off. Only now there is no off and the water of thoughts just flows.

What goes through the minds of men when they hurt them? Isn’t there a spark of conscience somewhere in them telling them to stop? How is it possible that they forget their sisters or mothers when they abuse another woman?

Because doing what is right is in your bones. Just follow where your bones take you.