Shannon Celebi Quotes

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing
and reading
is a solitary business. And it's good to know I'm not alone. ~ Shannon Celebi

Because the South can be a dangerous place, especially for those who don't understand it. ~ Shannon Celebi

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white. ~ Shannon Celebi

Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold. ~ Shannon Celebi

Mrs. Porter was from Virginia and had a smooth-as-cat-fur way of speaking. She taught me how to say, "Fiddle-Dee-Dee," just like Scarlett O'Hara and she made her split-pea soup with bacon and even let me try on her lipstick sometimes as she teased up my hair in the same sixties style she wore, "Ala Pricilla Presley," whoever that was. ~ Shannon Celebi

It wasn't as if she'd thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn't always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want. ~ Shannon Celebi

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, "When did you start feeling like a grownup?" His response: "Never. ~ Shannon Celebi

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. ~ Shannon Celebi

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. ~ Shannon Celebi

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two. ~ Shannon Celebi

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back. ~ Shannon Celebi

You're saying, "What the hell am I gonna do with her?" You're saying, "Shit, did she take her pills?" You're saying, "Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl. ~ Shannon Celebi

Writing is a solitary business. It's just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill. ~ Shannon Celebi

Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on my brow ... and I know it's time to bust out those "chocolate frogs" from Harry Potter. ~ Shannon Celebi

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

Mama wasn't dead ... exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free. ~ Shannon Celebi

Don't worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises. ~ Shannon Celebi

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something ... or something. ~ Shannon Celebi

My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper. ~ Shannon Celebi

Amber Rorman had told me too that our third grade teacher, Ms. Lizetti, was really a lesbian, which I thought was a disease until I asked Amber and Amber told me to ask her mother who told me to ask my mother, who said, "Lesbians are women who like to have sex with other women," which I didn't think was all that weird. ~ Shannon Celebi

I think of Ariel, my local neighborhood mermaid, how she only had twenty-four hours to turn her life around ... ~ Shannon Celebi

If she could hate this much she sure as hell had loved. ~ Shannon Celebi

Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too. ~ Shannon Celebi

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like. ~ Shannon Celebi

She dreamed of driving off bridges: into a lake beneath some twisting highway of her youth, into the reservoir on the country road to home, into the San Francisco Bay. ~ Shannon Celebi

I'm sorry if ... I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you're trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever. ~ Shannon Celebi

Here's a random factoid: I like cats. And here's another: I like red wine. ~ Shannon Celebi

It's not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, Okay, world, today I'm gonna spaz. ~ Shannon Celebi

Using one's beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that's how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife. ~ Shannon Celebi

You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying? ~ Shannon Celebi

Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes - not unlike you - not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even if they don't tend to know it. ~ Shannon Celebi

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind. ~ Shannon Celebi

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other's sentences and often wonder who's memories belong to whom. ~ Shannon Celebi

I could say it all began with my mother. ~ Shannon Celebi

I guess that makes sense. And by the way - your friends?" Amy glanced over her shoulder to take another peek at them. "Are they in a contest to see who can be the most gorgeous or something?"
Sophie had to laugh. "They might be."
"It's ridiculous," Amy told her. "Especially Fitz's family. I mean, seriously, who looks like that?"
"Only the Vackers," Sophie assured her. ~ Shannon Messenger

Sometimes God doesn't deny, he delays. ~ Shannon L. Alder

It's a sad day when your iPhone becomes a horcrux, witches hunt your soul and you have to seek the resurrection stone just to find yourself. I was hardly Harry Potter. There was no lightening bolt on my forehead, but if you knew my life you would have met a storm. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Love was a lot more complicated when you had a lot of time on your hands. ~ Shannon A. Thompson

Did I miss when you named them?" Edaline asked.
"Yeah, Keefe brought it up today - and be glad Silveny didn't go with Keeferina and the Keefster."
Grady sighed. "That boy."
"He's quite the character," Mr. Forkle agreed. ~ Shannon Messenger

Sometimes battles are unavoidable. ~ Shannon A. Thompson

Keefe shouted, "YOU GUYS HAVE TO SEE THIS!" They ran to the main room and found Keefe standing under the skylight, holding up Mr. Snuggles like it was a baby lion about to be made kind. The sparkly red dragon twinkled almost as much as Keefe's eyes as he said, "I went in to check on our boy and found him cuddling with this! ~ Shannon Messenger

If you want someone to help you heal then you don't go to the enemy; you go to the one person that fears a bad reputation if they don't help you. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Go back to your wife....you man whore!" Shouted the old woman, raising her walker for another strike. ~ Shannon K. Butcher

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends. ~ Shannon L. Alder

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline during their life. We understand storms. We understand drowning. We understand being devalued. We understand being stranded alone on a beach. God made us this way so we would know where every lighthouse can be found and tell others how to find them. We were never meant to stand on the beach with you because every rescue we do rescues ourselves. We always go back to the sea because that is where driftwood belongs
forever searching for answers to our endless questions and sharing what we learned ... (2012, Writer's Conference) ~ Shannon L. Alder

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Brighton goes through English teachers like Hogwarts devours Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers. ~ Shannon Lee Alexander

She was tempted to ask if they were journeying with a hobbit to reclaim the Lonely Mountain. ~ Shannon Messenger

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Charlotte couldn't allow herself to dwell on how it felt to hold Eddie's hand - as if all that mattered in the world were expressed in that touch; as if she would be safe and happy forever because this wonderful man wanted to be beside her; as if doves had come to nestle and coo beseechingly in her bosom. No, she really couldn't allow herself to dwell on that, especially if doves were involved. Doves crossed the line. As they often do. ~ Shannon Hale

Keefe was going to slay her over this ~ Shannon Messenger

Shannon: He's gone out of his way to avoid speaking to me for the past four days because of this.
Will: You want me to kill him?
Shannon: No but I appreciate the offer.
Will: Anytime
Will: You're not a bitch, peanut.
Shannon: I'm pretty sure you've been telling me otherwise for months.
Will: I'm allowed to insult you, I make up for it in orgasms. Those other fuckers are not, and God help them if they upset you again. ~ Kate Canterbary

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Later, when they would spend straight hours conversing in the dark, Jane would realize that Henry kissed the way he talked- his entire attention taut, focused, intensely hers. ~ Shannon Hale

There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams. ~ Shannon Miller

Keefe whistled, "Remind me never to get on your bad side, Dizznee. ~ Shannon Messenger

collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls "divertissement," an untranslatable word which roughly means "distraction" or "diversion": It is the escape from life's problems, and also its invitations, into activities that in ultimate terms are meaningless. It is a constant turning to superficial actions as a way to avoid facing the true realities of human life. The soap operas and situation comedies easily become an addiction. They take the place of the "bread and circuses" of ancient Rome. There was plenty wrong with Roman society and the Roman emperors offered the diversion of food and entertainment to make people forget the banality and meaninglessness of the lives they lived. Our society does much the same and has ever so much more in the way of sophisticated tools for doing so. ~ William H. Shannon

She wasn't going to cry. She was going to fight. ~ Shannon Messenger

Then Rin was hugging him. Relief and joy swelled inside her till she thought she would burst.
"Uh ... ," Razo said, patting her head as if she might be crazy.
"You were dead," she mumbled against his chest.
"I was? Well, I wish someone had told me. Would've been nice to relax on my back for a while. Um, how'd I die? ~ Shannon Hale

Put that thing down, girl. Don't you know it steals part of your soul, that little mechanical masterpiece you hold so frivolously? Don't you know it's not just mine it seals into its gears and trick mirrors, but yours, too. What you feel at this moment, what you hope for, what your dreams are, what you think your future will unfold like, it steals it all from you, too. You aren't safe just because of the side of the lens you're on. And later, when everything is said and done, and you want to forget everything that happened in these walls, when you're all alone, this picture, this piece of your soul you didn't even know was gone, will haunt you. It will come bearing knives and AKs and nine millimeters, and it will destroy you from the inside out. Put that damned thing down and stop acting like any of this is something worth remembering. ~ Shannon Noelle Long

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow. ~ Shannon L. Alder

The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don't is because my angels keep me standing up. ~ Shannon L. Alder

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival. ~ Shannon A. Thompson

Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Holy Hell! That was totally badass ~ Shannon Delany

John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you're a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. "He had a pair of my best, sharpest sewing scissors poised, ready to cut. Penis in the scissors. I said, 'What are you doing?' He said, 'This doesn't belong here. So I'm going to cut it off.' I said, 'You can't do that.' He said, 'Why not?' I said, 'Because if you ever want to have girl parts, they need that to make them.' I pulled that one right out of my ass. He handed me the scissors and said, 'Okay. ~ Andrew Solomon

The rebel inside of me always ignored the rules. ~ Shannon A. Thompson

In the end, what will you fight for
what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along? ~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't push me." She stopped and glared at me over her shoulder. "You're my friend, Shannon. I care about you, but if I have to choose, I choose Cole. So back the fuck off before I slap the fucking stupidity out of you. ~ Samantha Young

Cedar groaned and picked up her spoon with her bright blue fingers. While the rest of her was the fiery brown of the cedar wood she'd been carved from, her fingers were covered in blue paint up to her knuckles. You could tell a lot about Cedar's current art projects by the color of her fingers. She didn't mind getting messy. She just sanded the paint off. ~ Shannon Hale

He went to the light switch by the door and flicked it off. When he turned, she glowed in the golden light from the space heater, and the shadow over her shoulders on the wall seemed a looming, black-cloaked figure. An ancient, mythical harbinger of doom and destruction.
He blinked. It turned into a pattern of blocked light again.
Jesus, what the hell was that about?
He was rattled, jittery, scared half to death. But he could no more say no to this girl than he could stop breathing. ~ Shannon McKenna