Jonny Appleseed
Joshua Whitehead
Top 10 Best Quotes
“... humility is just a humiliation you loved so much it transformed.”
“My home is full of hope and ghosts.”
“...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--”
“I didn't have the heart to tell him everything, didn't have the courage to say, man, feeling like that's going to break you if you ain't careful. "It's my first time, y'know," he said, as if I didn't know. "I hope I didn't do anything wrong. Did I make any mistakes?" "Mistakes?" I tried hard not to laugh. "Well, let's see, your first mistake was asking that." Then I put my hands on his shoulders and pressed my forehead against his. "And your second one was you thinking you ever owed me a goddamn thing.”
“The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my kokum's lying here dead...She wrote up a report and closed my kokum's eyes, then walked out of the room and summoned a doctor. In the room beside us, another nurse was still laughing. Sometimes I don't like how life goes on. And sometimes I don't think it should.”
“Finishing a seven-hour wank session, feeling exhausted, overworked, burnt out, underpaid, sad, hungry, lonely, nostalgic, and strangely beautiful during a one a.m. Sev-run.”
“Funny how an NDN "love you" sounds more like, "I'm in pain with you.”
“we all got thick skin, but we still gotta let people in.”
“the fall left me with a dent in my clavicle, wide enough to contain both of those women's many tears.”
“When you really let yourself feel, well, you end up scaring yourself from all the hurt and pain.”
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Book Keywords:
mourning, sadness, hospitals, death, home, nurses, grief