19 Quotes by M.O. Walsh

Now go into the world and tell this story.

A dark color grows over the plant life, eventually growing so thick that it divorces the plant from the sun and a botanical sadness takes over.

But for every adult person you look up to in life there is trailing behind them an invisible chain gang of ghosts, all of which, as a child, you are generously spared from meeting.

Parents have that special skill of making the truth, no matter how benign, an embarrassing thing. We all know this.

Life is complicated. It’s a form of joy to have no other choice.

You’re going to have a hard time in life if you let every little mistake bother you, he said. Life is good, son. Enjoy it.

But still, it broke my heart, like life did.

There is a saying in South Louisiana that “when we eat one meal we talk about the next,” and this is true. Who wouldn’t? In this imagined menu lies a future, a forecasted life, a community, perhaps even a weekend full of cheer and good food.

What else, besides love, do we have?