Praying Drunk Quotes

“Nothing new can happen here, so all you do is think about the days of life when possibility hadn't been ripped from you forever, when anything could happen, and wonder why so much was squandered, so much wasted.”
― Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk

“Our job is to identify the distance between the story we’ve been telling ourselves about our lives—the received story, or the romantic story, or the wishful thinking—and replace it with the story that experience is revealing about our lives, the story that is more true.”
― Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk: Stories

“It’s like Kazuo Ishiguro said: “I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
― Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk: Stories

“You’re entitled to it, and we’ll give it to you if you want, but what you need to know is sometimes what you want isn’t the same as the thing we can give you.”
― Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk: Stories

“WE BEGIN WITH THE TROUBLE, but where does the trouble begin? My uncle takes a pistol and blows his brains out.”
― Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk: Stories

“The sweet life,” the preacher said. “Is made of bitter parts.”
― Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk: Stories

“On the cover of this book, it says “Fiction.” A: That’s what people write when they want to get away with telling the truth.”
― Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk: Stories

“AM DEEPLY, DEEPLY AFRAID. Subtract seventeen years from my twenty-nine. I am twelve years old, standing beneath a starfruit tree, standing on an asphalt path lined with banyan trees, their roots extending from ground to sky to ground again and forming great pockets of wild, empty space in the center of their root-branches.”
― Kyle Minor, Praying Drunk: Stories