Quotes from Marianne Wiggins

Sunny's mother had written that spatchcocking can't be done in less than 2 incisions. Sunny had taught herself how to do in it just one. She made a single one-inch clean incision through the neck bone just above the broken spine. Then with one swift move she deboned it through its anus, using just her thumb and middle finger. ---------------------- So imagine what will happen to the man who falls in love with her.

when Flash started to speak about love the word floated in the same sort of way, only closer in and brighter and with far more mystery, but also with the smell of eggs, and other men, and beer.

Life is a series of collisions, for fucksake. It's not a narrative experience.

It's like one big lending library out there. A piece of what was once a star or something, a flower or a willow tree, when it is finished bein' that might be loaned away an' become a fish or a person's fingernail or evaporate into the sky and be a rainbow. That the—what did he call 'em?—stuff that makes your atoms up an' mine, that stuff mixed up a little different is the sum of all the stuff that's in existence.

Frost came behind the rain, and the resulting scene across the fields was a ponded desecration, frozen like a photograph of ruin, an upheaval painted with the hues of autumn which had bled to mud.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

NEVER TRUST A MAN WHO DOESN'T COOK

Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occurring without taking out the magic spark plug, the genius of invention that ignited the adventure in the first place.

because light travels to us over distance, everything we see is an illusion. And that the whole purpose of existence is to cut the distance between the source of the illusion and our perception of it. And if we can do that, then we can see that every particle of matter is the same.

Youth never sees its shadow till the sun's about to set: and then you wonder where the person went who you were speaking to in all your thoughts for all those years.

Most people have a perceptual tripwire which registers the trespass of another's focused interest.

when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.