Godshot Quotes

“But that was the way with boys. Always getting things that made them better -- pants with pockets, tools for building -- while girls received adornments, things to make us appear better to others.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“I decided then to tell Artichoke to be ugly. To make herself as ugly as possible and not worry too much about beauty or what anyone thought of her. To be unpainted, to live in the breeze and stand under waterfalls and not be worried over the height of mountains, of quiet trails deep in the woods. To not be scared of roads slick with rain, of valleys dry in drought. I'd tell her 'no fear' and she'd know it was the deepest truth and she would be everything I was not. She would be wild and free. And I wouldn't worry because I knew the secret. That through all of her ugliness, all her hiking and running and jumping and falling and getting back up and saying no and saying what she wanted, her scraped hands, her freckled skin, her smart brain, she would of course be beautiful.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“Anyhow, most people never looked at anyone else with any clarity, one eye forever turned toward themselves.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“When I read it seemed time could stop. It seemed perhaps my life was just another book I was in and it was anyone’s guess what the real life was.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“The church revealed itself to me then. Creaking wood planks, peeling and hot. Trinity Prism in the rafters, long in the face. The cheap common glitter, no specimen of heaven. Vern in a polyester robe fraying at the edges. I saw everything exactly as it was, dark and dirty, the people covered in filth, farm-beaten and raw, their deadened searching eyes, desperation. And the girls. The girls of blood, all full up like me.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“The loneliness of a monster can only become sentimental after it is dead.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“You found God?" It came from my mouth like the deepest routine.
He looked me up and down, side-smiling. "I found you.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“The body always knows.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“To have a room cheer for you and only you is a strange treasure. It felt like everyone liked me more than I had ever known and I was unwrapping their affection for the first time like a gift.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“I sell what people want,” he said. “And everyone wants that.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“But that was the way with boys. Always getting things that made them better - pants with pockets, tools for building - while girls received adornments, things to make us appear better to others.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“I thought about what I had always wanted more than anything and I knew then immediately in my haze like the surest thing. I wanted unconditional love from my mother, and I was not going to have that. But somehow I held unconditional love for her. Perhaps giving it away could be its own reward.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“I thought about what I had always wanted more than anything and I knew then immedieately in my haze like the surest thing. I wanted unconditional love from my mother, and I was not going to have that. But somehow I held unconditional love for her. Perhaps giving it away could be its own reward.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“She said she had seen her whole imagination right there in that water, glimmering out toward the endless horizon line.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“Sometimes now I pass by churches. I park my car in the back rows of lots and watch the bodies file in. I don’t follow. It doesn’t mean God is nothing to me now. It means I’ll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out belief, and if the good I know of God is true, there is time enough.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

“I loved watching her. My mother was the sun in a dark room.”
― Chelsea Bieker, Godshot