Drinker of Ink Quotes

“It is terrifying to be a parent. To choose to behave one way with your child, and then watch what comes of it. It is like planting a garden with aster and dynamite, but you never know which, and either sprouts up at the oddest times to remind you of what you did well or poorly.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“...you can only be surprised to the same degree as your ignorance.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“...it is a fact, though I cannot cite statistics, that most people who die did not actually plan on it.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“I could look at your eyes all day, I am relieved to report I did not actually say.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“My hormones make me a miserable feminist.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“Why is attraction a mix of elation and sickness?”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“One would have to be literally deaf not to hear the ellipsis in that.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“Today is just full of ellipsis.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“Peter: Journaling takes a lot of discipline.”
Vivienne: “Or neurosis,”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“Words—I have never written this sentiment—failed me.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“The present we live in vanishes before we blink, let alone write it down in ink.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“...to write is to allow pain and love and memory and time to exist outside yourself. You breathe when the words are out.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“Would I myself like to know more about you, the writer of your poems, or simply more about your poems’ constructed narrator, the “speaker”? I’ll be succinct: You, Vivienne. Every fragmented detail.”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink