Godforsaken Idaho Quotes

“I was desperate for him to hear me. What was my existence otherwise? I tried and tried to make a ripple in the world. To be there.”
― Shawn Vestal, Godforsaken Idaho

“I wondered what would happen to him, and what would happen to me. The world rolls on and on. We cannot imagine it without us, even as we dream of death.”
― Shawn Vestal, Godforsaken Idaho

“I'm nobody's motivational speaker, but if I've learned anything it's this: Always try to fuck someone you think won't fuck you. Just try. Chances are decent that you're overestimating their taste or intelligence.”
― Shawn Vestal, Godforsaken Idaho

“FOR MOST OF MY LIFE I couldn’t have found Idaho on a map. I had no picture of the place in my mind, nothing like a California beach or a Texas oil field. Potato trees, is what I thought on the drive out. Rows”
― Shawn Vestal, Godforsaken Idaho: Stories