48 Quotes by Shannon Celebi

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.

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 to kill me.

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.