Quotes by : Nick Flynn

If it had been a heart attack, the new

Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended....

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.

It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and....

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

My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures—it....

(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already....

What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into.

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