Tess Callahan Quotes

This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap.

Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry--that can last a lifetime.

All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.