Don't Suck, Don't Die Quotes

“You started with a broken heart and blamed everyone you met after that for breaking it.”
― Kristin Hersh, Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt

“So we choose the person who we want to go through life with, propping each other up like exhausted dancers in a marathon.”
― Kristin Hersh, Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt

“The lightness and darkness and static electricity, the light/dark stasis, the electricity. The grime-ification, the cleansing, the cleansing grime. Shocks. This is how the road gets you lost and found, over and over and over again: hey, I have no needs. Which affords you a fresh opportunity for decency, for empathetic listening, compassionate alertness; for observation, for disappearing into the woodwork. That kind of noisy quiet suits a songwriter. Invisibility and interest complement each other when you have a soundtrack in your head reminding you that nothing needs to be brought to life, it all just is life.”
― Kristin Hersh, Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt