Suzanne and Gertrude Quotes

“The Friday before I closed the shop a woman came in wearing a t-shirt that said Do Epic Shit. I closed the shop three hours early and fled home to Gertrude.
Who are we to Do Epic Shit? Surely that's the mistake we've always made. Doing Epic Shit. Can we not Do Less Epic Shit? Can we not, perhaps, do nothing at all? Where has all this Epic Doing gotten us? In a great bloody Epic Mess is where. One person does some Epic Shit and the next person has to do some Epic Shit Fixing.”
― Jeb Loy Nichols, Suzanne and Gertrude: A Novel

“Let others be what they are. Be a noninfluencer.
But don't you want to influence the world? Make it better?
Have we ever? Have we ever made anything better?
We can try.
I want the world to be free of our constant meddling.”
― Jeb Loy Nichols, Suzanne and Gertrude: A Novel