Tell the Machine Goodnight Quotes

“I let her clasp my hand and stare at me with her big, dark eyes. Because I know that when people comfort you, they're really just comforting themselves.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“In this overcrowded, underwhelming world, any gesture, no matter how slight, expressing that one person recognizes another person is a nice thing indeed.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“But there is knowing something and then there is feeling it. For adults, these are two different things. For children, they are one.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“a type of violence, that much charm continuously wielded, a blade that severed you from your own good sense.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“There is no origin for the word love. It is one of the first words and has always meant only itself.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“It was one of the unfair things of life--that your child had to look like your ex-husband.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“Cruelest are the punishments we visit upon ourselves.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“You will take a long trip and you will be very happy, though alone.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“Unhappiness breeds unkindness,”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“What they don’t understand is that it condition is a symptom of me. That I am a stone buried deep in the ground, something that will never grow, no matter how good the dirt.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“Prohibition! Everyone loves a flapper dress or a fake tommy gun, but who remembers the thousands of people who went blind drinking unregulated wood alcohol?”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“I feel it, that expansiveness specific to childhood, the breath filling you all the way up to the puff of your cheeks, the feeling that each breath is good.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“Apple is another word that has always meant itself. In fact, it used to apply to any fruit, vegetable, or even nut. All fruits were apples. The potato was the apple of the earth (and still is in French: pomme de terre). Dates were finger apples. The banana was, in Middle English, the apple of paradise.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“Val was young enough that alcohol was still recreation, not yet anesthesia,”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“She did not go so far as to tell the machine goodnight.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“Because I know that when people comfort you, they’re really just comforting themselves.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“Lo, Elliott was an artist. No crucible of hardship, no spiritual calling. Art was just something he was good at, therefore something he was praised for, therefore something he kept doing.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“What they don’t understand is that my condition is a symptom of me. That I am a stone buried deep in the ground, something that will never grow, no matter how good the dirt.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

“And I don’t tell Saff the truth: that my body knows more than my brain does, too, that that’s why I starve it.”
― Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight