She Needed Me Quotes

“Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.”
― Walter Kirn, She Needed Me

“How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.”
― Walter Kirn, She Needed Me

“Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same time we're literally dying in our beds.”
― Walter Kirn, She Needed Me

“Though I no longer liked him or respected him, the thought of his disapproval frightened me.”
― Walter Kirn, She Needed Me

“They were gray, staring, bottomless, blank, fallen eyes whose pupils played scenes of heaven upside down.”
― Walter Kirn, She Needed Me

“Our faith was a flickering flame.”
― Walter Kirn, She Needed Me

“It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.”
― Walter Kirn, She Needed Me

“What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?”
― Walter Kirn, She Needed Me