Quotes from the Koi Journal

"I thought if I lived in a place like this, I would never eat again, only drink filtered water like lead crystals and bask in the sun like a lizard. I would be paper, lined thinly and white as the angels I hate so. I would be the empty page that always follows the story. Silly girl." 11.22.00

"I broke and I mended and I wore bracelets and mascara. I drew and I danced and I crushed and I peeled my own feelings back like an orange's skin." 11.22.00

"I'm on a plane, on a plane to nowhere. But nowhere is somewhere so they call it Cincinnati." 11.23.00