Paper Ghosts Quotes

“A picture is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” —DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971) American photographer”
― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts

“Houston stretches out before us, a modern goddess, bruised by not defeated.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts

“The wasps that live inside my chest build paper nests.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts

“My eyes are concealed behind a pair of pilot Ray-Bans. That’s really not so weird at 8:30 in the morning, because Texas sunrises are blinding, Texas hangovers are a bitch, and Texas women spend freely on good sunglasses.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts

“slipped into my bed and wrapped her arms around me. I still feel the imprint of her body at my back when I curl up.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts

“I want to drop backward, fall forever, and land on a place soft and endlessly deep.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts

“Houston stretches out before us, a modern goddess, bruised but not defeated.”
― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” —J. M. BARRIE, PETER PAN Epitaph on the grave of Rachel Lynne Barrett, Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford,”
― Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts