My Heart Is a Drunken Compass Quotes

“After a while, I realized that they’d never acknowledge or credit me for the work I’d been doing because it would mean, at some point, they’d have to reward it in a wage, and no matter how much I gave or tried, or went above my earnings, it would all go unanswered, and they’d only ask for more.”
― Domingo Martinez, My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir

“The closest I can now explain it from the safety of this distance and this keyboard is that we both pitied one another as a bad fit for this world: What we saw and understood of the other made us sad for both the other person and ourselves, and if we could make it better for the other, well, it might be better for me, for us.”
― Domingo Martinez, My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir

“Camping, as someone I trust implicitly once told me, is at its best definition an agreement to be uncomfortable.”
― Domingo Martinez, My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir