“Closure doesn’t exist,” she responds smoothly. “Just…awareness. That you can’t ever go back. That you know a truth about life’s randomness that most other people don’t.”
―
Julia Heaberlin,
Black-Eyed Susans
“My grandfather told me that God puts pieces in the wrong places to keep us busy solving puzzles, and in the perfect places so that we never forget there is a God.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“I thought there would be more people. Where are all the people who scream on Facebook?” “On the couch. Screaming.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“There's a reason you feel the need to blame yourself," he continues, "from all accounts you're a very careful girl. If you accept the blame, decide you took a rare misstep, you can reassure yourself this was not a random event. If you blame yourself you can believe you're still in control of your universe. You're not, you never will be.” ― Julia Heaberlin
“He believed that a person’s most profound flaws or virtues emerge in great crisis, or they remain buried forever.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“Life is never yours. You are just renting it out while the landlord in the sky ups the price until you can’t pay anymore” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“I am sane, and I am not, and I don’t want anyone to know.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“In the dark, all that's left is our souls.” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“That was my grandfather's one survival tip if I ever found myself trapped in a fairy tale. Keep your promises. Bad things happen if you don't.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“The kind of desktop where passion is screwing organization and nobody's making the bed.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“Loving dark men is a seesaw. They never tell you everything. You always wonder if the tiny red spot on a shirt is really from a spaghetti dinner like they claim. But then they put a bird back in a nest. They pull a drowning kid out of the water. And that’s all it takes. The spaghetti is not blood.” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“A picture is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” —DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971) American photographer” ― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts
“Moral high ground is a pleasant place to perch, even if the view turns about to be rather limited, in scope.” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“Wouldn't you be happier if the thing that defined you to the world was not what you were missing?” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“This is something I love about native southerners—a hello includes more personal information than a Yankee would parse out in an hour. Actually, the hello often doesn’t include the word hello.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead
“February in Texas is a cold, bitter lady. March is when she loses her virginity.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“It is a cancerous myth, that children are resilient.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead
“Children often play the day of the funeral as if it’s any other day. It’s deceptive. They grieve far longer and more deeply than adults.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“Natives often return, especially the ones who swear they never will.” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“My grandfather told me that God puts pieces in the wrong places to keep us busy solving puzzles, and in the perfect places so that we never forget there is a God.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“I thought there would be more people. Where are all the people who scream on Facebook?” “On the couch. Screaming.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“There's a reason you feel the need to blame yourself," he continues, "from all accounts you're a very careful girl. If you accept the blame, decide you took a rare misstep, you can reassure yourself this was not a random event. If you blame yourself you can believe you're still in control of your universe. You're not, you never will be.” ― Julia Heaberlin
“He believed that a person’s most profound flaws or virtues emerge in great crisis, or they remain buried forever.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“Life is never yours. You are just renting it out while the landlord in the sky ups the price until you can’t pay anymore” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“I am sane, and I am not, and I don’t want anyone to know.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“In the dark, all that's left is our souls.” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“That was my grandfather's one survival tip if I ever found myself trapped in a fairy tale. Keep your promises. Bad things happen if you don't.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“The kind of desktop where passion is screwing organization and nobody's making the bed.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“Loving dark men is a seesaw. They never tell you everything. You always wonder if the tiny red spot on a shirt is really from a spaghetti dinner like they claim. But then they put a bird back in a nest. They pull a drowning kid out of the water. And that’s all it takes. The spaghetti is not blood.” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“A picture is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” —DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971) American photographer” ― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts
“Moral high ground is a pleasant place to perch, even if the view turns about to be rather limited, in scope.” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“Wouldn't you be happier if the thing that defined you to the world was not what you were missing?” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
“This is something I love about native southerners—a hello includes more personal information than a Yankee would parse out in an hour. Actually, the hello often doesn’t include the word hello.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead
“February in Texas is a cold, bitter lady. March is when she loses her virginity.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“It is a cancerous myth, that children are resilient.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Playing Dead
“Children often play the day of the funeral as if it’s any other day. It’s deceptive. They grieve far longer and more deeply than adults.” ― Julia Heaberlin, Black-Eyed Susans
“Natives often return, especially the ones who swear they never will.” ― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark
