Tailbone Quotes

“Success could never slice into you the way failure could. Pride could never find your guts the way shame could. Shame broke you down into rocks and then into pebbles and then into sand. Until one day you reached down into your guts that's all you felt, dry sand, that's all you were made of. All that was left to do was grab handfuls of it and fling it into the eyes of the ones who still saw you.”
― Che Yeun, Tailbone

“Their tenderness sickened me. Why couldn't I just be happy for them? Happy that tenderness existed all? Why couldn't I look it in the eye?”
― Che Yeun, Tailbone