Quotes by : Nick Flynn

I was unable to throw myself in the ocean,” she writes, the handwriting more erratic as the painkillers....

If it had been a heart attack, the new

If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but instead,....

When my grandmother comes to dinner at our house she always carries her own jar of Turner’s Special....

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor....

Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given....

You do know, right,that between the no-longer & the still-to-comeyou are being continuallytattooed, inkedwith....

I’ve come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information,....

But what of Ham? It didn’t matter if he told anyone about his drunken father or not, if he chided him....